ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,812, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"External variable opening and closing apparatus" was invented by Jin Young Yoon (Gimpo-si, South Korea), Dong Eun Cha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hong Heui Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Sup Byun (eongnam-si, South Korea) and Jang Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external variable opening and closing apparatus includes a housing having an opening portion, a flap unit provided in the opening portion to open or close the opening portion accor...