ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,220, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for estimating traffic volume based on demand of route search" was invented by Nam Hyuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating a traffic volume based on demand for route search, includes a processor and a storage medium configured to record one or more programs configured to be executable by the processor. The processor is configured to collect a plurality of pieces of route search data, generate route search demand data based on the collected plurality ...