US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOBIS on April 1 for "System and method for preventing drunk driving of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,852, issued on April 1, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for preventing drunk driving of vehicle" was invented by Yu Jin Jung (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Yeon Su Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea), June Seung Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Chang Won Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for preventing drunk driving of a vehicle, the system including: an input unit through which a transfer intention to transfer a control privilege of a vehicle from a registered driver to a passenger is input; a sobriety determination unit configured to determine a current d...