US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 31 for "Rear seat passenger notification device and a method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,138, issued on March 31, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rear seat passenger notification device and a method therefor" was invented by Seul Ki Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hui Won Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Eung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear seat passenger notification device includes a sensor device that identifies information about at least one passenger who is present in a host vehicle when the host vehicle enters a lock state. The rear seat passenger notification device also includes an alarm device that performs a ...