ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,436, issued on May 26, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing a shared mobility service" was invented by Jung Hun Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Hyun Ha (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Wung Jung (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobility service providing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: moving, by a vehicle, to a customer when the customer requests the vehicle to provide a mobility service and forming, by one or more anchors mounted on the vehicle, an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) link with an informa...