US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 3 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,243, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Dae Young Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a steering wheel that specifies a driving direction of a host vehicle and a processor. The processor may: determine that the host vehicle is under autonomous driving control; determine a candidate value for a threshold value or a candidate value for a threshold time based on at least one of a maximum deceleration value among decelerations of the h...