ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,297, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Camera monitoring system disposed on a panel of a vehicle body" was invented by Nak Kyoung Kong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dae Hee Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Heon Wang (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Won Sik Hong (Incheon, South Korea), Houng Young Shin (Incheon, South Korea), Chang Hwan Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Min Cho (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera monitoring system (CMS) disposed on a panel of a vehicle body. A housing is disposed o...