US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle and method of controlling arrangement of seats" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,678, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling arrangement of seats" was invented by Junkyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changsub Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jae Sun Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Ho Ssang Jo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of a vehicle is configured to control an arrangement of seats in the vehicle based on a number of occupants, a number of pieces of baggage and a baggage size, where the vehicle includes: a vehicle seat including at least one of a first seat, a second s...