ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,819, issued on March 31, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for providing service by using multipurpose vehicle" was invented by Sang Heon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Eun Cha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jin Ho Hwang (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced are a system and a method for providing a service by using a multipurpose vehicle, wherein a user, a service provider, and a multipurpose vehicle are matched, and a service of the matched service provider is provided to the matched user through the matched multipurpose ve...