ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,056, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and method of controlling power thereof" was invented by Heegun Yang (Anyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling power of a vehicle includes an individual device provided on each seat of the vehicle to be independently operated by an occupant of a corresponding seat, for detecting whether the occupant is present in each seat of the vehicle and turning off the individual device provided on the corresponding seat when a vacant seat in which no occupant is present is detected."...