ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,521, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle key search system and method" was invented by Jian Kang Man (Shandong, China), Yi Ping Sui (Shandong, China) and Lei Gong (Shandong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle key search system includes a vehicle with a processor configured to generate a vehicle key search command in response to user input and a communication device that transmits a vehicle key search signal based on the command. A vehicle key, upon receiving the vehicle key search signal, transmits a corresponding response signal to the commu...