ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,647, issued on April 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOVITECH CO.,LTD. (Incheon, South Korea).
"Sanding automation system and method" was invented by Rokjong Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea), Tong Key Jung (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Jin Cheol Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Kang Jae Jo (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanding automation system for removing a surface defect of an exterior component includes a first robot for generating an inspection mark of a certain pattern on an exterior component with uniform pressure through an inspection mark ...