ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,933, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for managing electronic card of vehicle, apparatus therefor, and method therefor" was invented by Seung Jae Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Dong Chan Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system for managing an electronic card of a vehicle, an apparatus therefor, and a method therefor can include a processor configured to recognize a unique identification of a terminal loaded in the vehicle, compare the unique identification of the terminal loaded in the vehicle with a ...