ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,969, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Parking video recording device, a telematics server and a method for recording a parking video" was invented by Joo Am Baek (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a parking video recording system comprises an AVNT installed in a vehicle and a video recording device, wherein the AVNT is configured to receive an intent to use public CCTV from a user, transmit a location of the vehicle to an external server, and receive at least one public CCTV video within a predetermined distance...