ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,528, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and CMES Inc. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for supplying parts for vehicle manufacturing process" was invented by Beom-Chul Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Myoung-Jin Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Seol Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung-Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang-Yong Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are configured to supply parts for use in a vehicle manufacturing process. The vehicle parts supply system includes a parts loading device in which a plurality...