ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,803, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air supply device" was invented by Jong Myeong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ju Yong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an air supply device including an intake module configured to introduce air from the outside, a compression module configured to receive the air discharged from the intake module and compress the air, a cooling module configured to cool the air compressed by and discharged from the compression module, and a control module configured to control an operation of...