ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,879, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lock control apparatus for vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jong Chul Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock control apparatus for a vehicle includes anchors to receive a signal transmitted from a terminal; a communication module to communicate using controller area network (CAN) communication; a detector installed on a door to input a detection signal; and a processor to receive the signal transmitted from the terminal from at least one of the anchors through the communication module, calculate a...