ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,968, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for managing storage and method thereof" was invented by Won Seok Choi (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Hye Jun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Sun Joo Moon (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may provide a controller, and a memory configured to store at least one instruction. The at least one instruction when executed by the controller, may cause the apparatus to receive, from a user device, a request for storage information, the request including at least one of storage company informat...