ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,401, issued on June 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Seat control apparatus and method" was invented by Kug Hun Han (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hoon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Du Se Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control apparatus receives a user input from a user through an input part. The seat control apparatus may identify, among a plurality of input devices included in the input part, a type of an input device corresponding to the user input, and determine whether the massage function is to be performed, based on informati...