US Patent Issued to Hyundai Mobis on Sept. 22 for "Purpose-built vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,153, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Purpose-built vehicle" was invented by Sung Joon Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyung Hoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Tae Hun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purpose-built vehicle includes a windshield selectively presenting an image toward the inside and the outside of a vehicle, and a seat, a position of the seat being movable inside of the vehicle and a seating base of the seat being attachable and detachable. Particularly, the seating base of the seat is configured to have such a rotatable structure that t...