US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 7 for "Vehicle including a cap that is automatically separated from a vehicle body" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,699, issued on April 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle including a cap that is automatically separated from a vehicle body" was invented by JongChan Jun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dea Ki Cheong (Yongin-si, South Korea), Deok Hwan Seo (Incheon, South Korea), Kwon Hyoung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinhyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an image acquisition unit, a cap provided on a body of the vehicle and configured to open and close a replenishing port for replenishing an energy source, a driving unit allowing th...