US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 1 for "Method of controlling vehicle for one-pedal driving assistance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,638, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling vehicle for one-pedal driving assistance" was invented by Jin Rak Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jeong Soo Eo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a vehicle for one-pedal driving assistance includes acquiring real-time driving information of a subject vehicle detected by a driving information detection unit and real-time vehicle-ahead information detected by a front detection unit; determining whether the subject vehicle has entered an automatic cont...