ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,527, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kookmin University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing traffic information to personal mobility vehicle" was invented by Gu-min Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Hyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Jung Oh (Seoul, South Korea), A-Reum Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Jun Ha (Hwaseong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for providing traffic information to personal mobility (PM) vehicle are provided. A computer implemented method i...