US Patent Issued to Hyundai Transys on March 31 for "Vehicle seat control apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,676, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hyundai Transys Inc. (Seosan-si, South Korea).

"Vehicle seat control apparatus and method" was invented by Suk Woo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jiyong Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat control apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a coordinate calculating unit which calculates an interference coordinate based on a current position of a motion seat, among a plurality of seats in a vehicle; a position determining unit which determines whether the motion seat and the other seat interfere with each other using the interference coor...