US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 3 for "Autonomous driving control apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,231, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method" was invented by Dong Hwi Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Chang Young Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Keon Chang Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an autonomous driving control apparatus which includes a steering device, a memory, and a controller. The autonomous driving control apparatus determines a user required torque received through the steering device, while controlling a host vehicle based on a required steering angle, dete...