ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,961, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of generating score map, method of controlling driving, and system of controlling driving for mobility" was invented by Dong Hwan Kwak (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sanghyeon Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyuntek Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a score map for a mobility can include loading, by a controller of the mobility, a local map including a plurality of cells, scanning, by a surrounding environment scanning unit mounted on the mobility, a surrounding ...