US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, DAECHANG SEAT, LTD-DONGTAN, HYUNDAI TRANSYS on Aug. 4 for "Latch assembly capable of maintaining locking state" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,907, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea), DAECHANG SEAT CO., LTD-DONGTAN (Hwaseong, South Korea) and HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC. (Seosan-si, South Korea).

"Latch assembly capable of maintaining locking state" was invented by Hyeok-Seung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sang-Do Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho-Suk Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Mu-Young Kim (Osan-si, South Korea), Jun-Hwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Chan-Ho Jung (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Jun-Young Yun (Osan-si, South Korea), Dong-Jin Kim (Anseong-si, South Korea) and In-Chang Hwang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. ...