US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 21 for "Apparatus for improving aerodynamic performance of a vehicle and a control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,446, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for improving aerodynamic performance of a vehicle and a control method thereof" was invented by Hak-Lim Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dong-Bum Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Tae-Hyung Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Jeong-Bok Lee (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea) and Bo-Hwan Cha (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for improving aerodynamic performance of a vehicle and a control method thereof. The apparatus is accommodated or deployed to control a fl...