ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,814, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dae Un Sung (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle includes an air conditioner, a plurality of odor sensing modules provided in an interior of the vehicle or inside the air conditioner, each of the odor sensing modules including a plurality of gas sensors, and a controller configured to determine whether to initiate a process of determining an occurrence of a bad smell based on state informati...