ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,583, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"System for preventing vehicle fire by oxygen depriviation" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dae Un Sung (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a vehicle fire prevention system and a method thereof, capable of preventing vehicle fire by adjusting the amount of oxygen present in an interior space of a vehicle and/or various enclosed parts of the vehicle to become less than a combustion oxygen demand that may cause a combustion reaction, determines the combustion oxyg...