US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle navigation device and method for controlling same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,652, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle navigation device and method for controlling same" was invented by Gyu Young Lee (Yongin-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle navigation device and a method for controlling the same, and more particularly, to a vehicle navigation device and a method for controlling the same, the vehicle navigation device displays advertising data corresponding to each of multiple pieces of route data to a user, enabling the user to select a traveling route suitable for the user's plan to use an affiliate...