US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Autonomous driving vehicle and a method of driving the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,448, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving vehicle and a method of driving the same" was invented by Jong Hyeok Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Hwan Kwak (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sang Hyeon Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving vehicle includes: a sensor section installed in the autonomous driving vehicle to sense direction data, position data, and velocity data of the autonomous driving vehicle; a camera configured to track movement of the autonomous driving vehicle and to estimate a posit...