ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,930, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Device and method for controlling a vehicle seat" was invented by Dae Young Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling travel of a vehicle includes: a storage that stores at least one of a first seat location before an autonomous driving, a second seat location set by a driver, or a third seat location in a current state; and a controller that controls a seat of the vehicle based on the seat location stored in the storage when a driving state of the vehicle is switched from an...