ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,286, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and FOUNDATION SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Gas leak detecting device and gas leak detecting method" was invented by Dong Sun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyo Shik Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Byung Jick Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Wook Han (Gimpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas leak detecting method includes a test article preparation operation of preparing a test article that includes a first coupling region, in which a second component is coupled to on...