ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,133, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for personalizing vehicle lamps" was invented by Seung-Pyo Hong (Incheon, South Korea), Da-Young Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung-Bin Kim (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and Moon-Soo Park (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of personalizing a vehicle lamp includes drawing an image made up of a plurality of pixels that implement a vehicle lamp, based on an input by a user. The method also includes converting the drawn image into light-and-shade data that correspond to the pixel...