ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,250, issued on June 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for predicting speed of vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Eun Ji Jun (Goyang-si, South Korea), Byeong Wook Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Won Seok Jeon (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Ki Sang Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for predicting a speed of a vehicle includes storage that stores a transformer model which completes learning, and a controller that predicts the speed of the vehicle based on the transformer model. The controller may extract feature information ab...