US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, CMES on Dec. 9 for "System and method for automatic vehicle body sanding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,949, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and CMES Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for automatic vehicle body sanding" was invented by BeomChul Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Tae Sic Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Mo Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Yohan Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sungho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Myoungjin Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghee Cheon (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic vehicle body sanding system operated in a painting factory includes a painting inspection device configured to detect a...