US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus for controlling vehicle convenience equipment, and vehicle having the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,876, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling vehicle convenience equipment, and vehicle having the same" was invented by Heegun Yang (Anyang-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle convenience equipment includes a communicator configured to communicate with an obstacle detector and an external device, and a processor communicatively connected to the communicator and configured to obtain distance information with the external device during communication with the external device, determine whe...