ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,279, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for actively updating vehicle software" was invented by Yong Jin Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus for updating software. The present disclosure provides a method of updating software, including providing a user of a vehicle with one or more vehicle software update options, determining whether an update condition is met based on a vehicle software update option, among the one or more vehicle software up...