ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,382, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co.; (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for sharing vehicle location through mobile text message parsing" was invented by Min Woo Lee (Whasung-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and system for sharing a vehicle location through mobile text message parsing, the method of sharing a vehicle location through mobile text message parsing includes extracting a text message and a mobile phone number of a user from a mobile device of the user, receiving shared data for real-time location sharing with a vehicle of another user...