ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,092, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Interlock control system linked to digital key and interlock control method for the same" was invented by Seul Ki Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interlock control system linked to a digital key includes an alcohol interlock controller, which calculates a decomposition time period required to decompose blood alcohol of each driver using personal information of the driver, extracted by authenticating a digital key, when a blood alcohol concentration measured by an alcohol measuring se...