ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,315, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle component voice control based on image captures" was invented by Minjae Park (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Jaemin Moon (Yongin-Si, South Korea) and Sungwang Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may include: a display provided inside the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the display, based on a condition being satisfied, to display a vehicle image comprising a graphic object and a plurality of indicators, wherein the graphic object indicates a plurality of portions of the veh...