US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Foldable loading bay cover for a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,711, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Foldable loading bay cover for a vehicle" was invented by Jae-Seung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyung-Sik Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Gook-Hyun Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Min-Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular folding-type loading bay cover includes a cover unit with a plurality of slats. Respective upper end portions of preceding and following slats and respective lower end portions thereof are alternatingly connected, and the cover unit can be folded and unfolded in a loadi...