US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a trailer-mounted vehicle to prevent rear-end collisions" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,853, issued on March 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a trailer-mounted vehicle to prevent rear-end collisions" was invented by Seung Eun Yu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device to control a trailer-mounted vehicle. The method for controlling a trailer-mounted vehicle may include: determining, based on current motion information of a vehicle, a force acting due to a gradient of a trailer mounted to the vehicle and an inertial force of the trailer, determining Z-axis momentum of the vehicle...