US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 14 for "Speaker device, vehicle comprising the same, and control method of vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,253, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Speaker device, vehicle comprising the same, and control method of vehicle" was invented by Dongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a speaker unit; a fixing member configured to fix the speaker unit to a vehicle body; a rotatable cover configured to be rotatable to a first state where the rotatable cover shields the speaker unit from an outside of the vehicle body, or to a second state where the speaker unit is exposed to the outside of the vehicle body; and a controller config...