ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,283, issued on July 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle sterilizing apparatus and cockpit module having the same" was invented by Seung Cheol Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cockpit module according to an embodiment includes a speaker disposed on a crash pad, a cover disposed to cover the speaker, and a sterilizing apparatus disposed on the crash pad, in which a hole formed in the cover is disposed to face an inlet port and an outlet port of the sterilizing apparatus. Accordingly, the cockpit module may implement a sterilizing apparatus, which sterilizes and filters a...