ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,172, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Jun Hyung Song (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, can be under control of the processor, and can include determining whether an actual lane line of a driving road is recognized by receiving sensing information from a plurality of sensors on the autonomous vehicle, initially recognizing a target vehicle driving behind the auton...