ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,764, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for automatically controlling in-cabin environment for passenger and system therefor" was invented by Yu Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Sik Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yeong Hun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically controlling an in-cabin environment for a passenger in an autonomous vehicle includes monitoring a state of the passenger via a video sensor; determining whether the state of the passenger corresponds to one of preset states of a predetermined number; and adjusting, when the s...