ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,793, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Cooperative fire extinguishing system for vehicle" was invented by Hyeon Gi Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire extinguishing system includes a fire detector configured to detect a fire in a vehicle, a controller of the vehicle on fire to transmit fire occurrence information including a fire extinguishment request signal and vehicle location information to a surrounding vehicle and to perform a control process for fire extinguishment when determining a fire has occurred through the fire ...