US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 21 for "Shared vehicle and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,519, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Shared vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Sung Joon Park (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Chang Yul Ji (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared vehicle and a method of controlling the same are aimed to provide a vehicle sharing service capable of efficiently and reasonably calculating a fare for a shared vehicle in various ways. A method of controlling a shared vehicle includes: driving the shared vehicle in at least one driving mode of a manual driving mode in whic...