US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPNY, KIA, LS AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on July 21 for "Multi-functional switch for a vehicle and a method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,274, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPNY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and LS AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Multi-functional switch for a vehicle and a method of controlling the same" was invented by Jin Young Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyeoung Il Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional switch for a vehicle includes a communication unit configured to receive a specification code for electronic devices determined according to a vehicle identification number of the vehicle by communicating with a diagnostic server. The co...