ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,051, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Passenger ingress and egress assistance apparatus" was invented by Kyu Hoon Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jae Seung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Soo Bok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dae Hee Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyoung Hwan Lim (Bucheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment passenger ingress and egress assistance apparatus includes a case having a cavity defined therein, a moving body configured to move in the cavity of the case in a longitudinal direction of the case, a platf...