ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,528, issued on July 28, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Songeun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a vehicle and a method of controlling the same that are capable of, when a user having been listening to a radio broadcast in a vehicle desires to send a message to the radio broadcast, providing a service that conveniently and safely sends the message to the radio broadcast when the user utters the message as speech. The vehicle may, based on a predetermined condition being s...