ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,974, issued on April 21, was assigned to Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"User awareness device, user awareness system, and user awareness method" was invented by Moon Sub Jin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeon Seok Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyung Hwan Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment user awareness device includes a processor configured to receive first information about a first user from a first device, specify the first user based on a result of comparing the first information with pre-registration information, transmit data corresponding to a first service ...