US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,863, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Chan Hee Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus may include: a collision risk determination device, a collision determination device, and a processor. The processor may determine whether an external object is present within a specified distance from a vehicle, through the collision risk determination device. The processor may obtain an impact value associated with a collision between the vehicle and the exter...