US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 30 for "Rigidity-improved vehicle panel door" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,106, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rigidity-improved vehicle panel door" was invented by Je-Won Choi (Anyang-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle panel door includes an external panel positioned, toward the outside of a vehicle, in a door of the vehicle, an internal panel, an external edge portion of the internal panel being joined to the external panel and the internal panel being positioned, toward the interior of the vehicle, in the door of the vehicle, support members disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, reinforcem...