US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus on March 17 for "Apparatus and method for detecting material of vehicle body part" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,269, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus (Ansan-Si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for detecting material of vehicle body part" was invented by Kyuhwan Oh (Ansan-si, South Korea), Juhyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Song Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Sang Kwak (Incheon, South Korea) and Ji Hwan Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for detecting a material of a vehicle body part includes a light source configured to emit an emission li...