ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,864, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control device and method" was invented by Min Seok Song (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Hyeon Jun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeon Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Seop Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control device includes a processor, a sensor, a battery, and a memory. The processor: predicts a change in speed of a vehicle based on a route of the vehicle, using map information received from an external server,...