ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,325, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for predicting traffic information" was invented by Tae Heon Kim (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for predicting traffic information are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of vehicles that transmits information obtained while traveling in a specified section, and a server that generates processed information based on the information received from the plurality of vehicles, predicts a traffic volume of the specified section at a first time point bas...