ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,422, issued on March 31, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automotive OTA update control device and method therefor" was invented by Jeong Seog Yang (Hanam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive over-the-air (OTA) update control device includes a first communication device that provides a communication interface with a data server and a second communication device that provides a communication interface between vehicles. The automotive OTA update control device also includes a controller that requests cluster update from the data server and allows th...