US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 7 for "Seat controlling apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,597, issued on July 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Seat controlling apparatus and method" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kug Hun Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Yo Han Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat controlling apparatus includes a driving part, a memory, and a controller. The seat controlling apparatus may: fold a first seat using the driving part when receiving a folding input for the first seat; determine whether a partition wall adjacent to the first seat satisfies an unfolding condition while the ...