US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 21 for "Vehicle and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,185, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hyun Mok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a communicator, an audio/video/navigation (AVN) terminal, and a controller configured to: control the communicator to request account information from a server in which the vehicle is registered among account information subscribed to a connected car service when updating software of the AVN terminal; control the AVN terminal to display the account information received from...