ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,606, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Information provision system and method" was invented by Min Seok Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information provision system includes a controller configured to determine an occupant on board a vehicle per seat and control the output of advertising information related to a point of interest based on the per-seat occupant and a driving time of the vehicle, and an output device operatively connected to the controller and configured to output the advertising information."

The patent was filed ...