US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 14 for "Movable object including wheel and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,162, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Movable object including wheel and method of operating the same" was invented by Eun Ho Seo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyeon Sik Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dae Keun Yoon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a movable object, in which the movable object includes two or more wheels at least spaced apart from one another in a forward/rearward direction, and two or more eccentric drive parts are each respectively configured to connect a wheel and the body part, the two ...