ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,110, issued on May 19, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Deployment system for pedestrian protection in a vehicle using pedestrian collision prediction information and a method thereof" was invented by Won-Tak Chang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment system for pedestrian protection in a vehicle using pedestrian collision prediction information includes: a pedestrian collision prediction part configured to analyze pedestrian collision recognition information and predict a pedestrian collision; and a temperature response variable controller...