US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 26 for "Vehicle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,098, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Indong Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Seunghoon Jeon (Incheon, South Korea) and Donghyuk Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may include: a sensor configured to detect an object outside of the vehicle; and a controller configured to perform a warning mode for generating a warning in response to the object being detected by the sensor, wherein the warning mode includes a first mode for detecting the object in a first preset driving condition of...