US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 30 for "System and method for controlling a vehicle entering a roundabout" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,275, issued on June 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for controlling a vehicle entering a roundabout" was invented by Myung Ki Yeom (Incheon, South Korea) and In Su Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a vehicle entering a roundabout includes a sensor unit configured to recognize a traffic island provided in the roundabout. The system also includes an autonomous driving controller configured to set defense zones based on the traffic island a speed of the vehicle. The defense zones may indicate danger zon...