ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,962, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Driving module" was invented by Sang Woo Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Min Jun Kim (Busan, South Korea), Jun Ho Seong (Seoul, South Korea), Woo Keun Park (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Sehyun Chang (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Youngil Sohn (Yongin-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving module includes a housing rotatably supported about a knuckle unit, a barrel unit rotatably supported by the housing, a first rotation input unit and a second rotation input unit rotatably supported by the knuckle unit, a fi...