ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,247, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for notifying vehicle arrival to respond to transportation vulnerable" was invented by Seung Jae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for notifying arrival of a vehicle to respond to the transportation vulnerable including determining a vehicle notification step based on a distance between the vehicle and a person scheduled to board when the vehicle approaches a location where a call is made in response to the call of the person scheduled to board who is the transportation vulnerable, a...