ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,940, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated system for autonomous driving of a vehicle and a method for the same" was invented by Jeong Hun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for autonomous driving of a vehicle may comprise a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory to cause the apparatus to perform receiving, from a navigation system, a first path, generating, based on the first path, a second path, and autonomously driving, following the second path, the vehicle, analyzing information provided ...