ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,279, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HYUNDIA MOTOR COMPANY (Incheon, South Korea).
"Roof side rail for vehicles" was invented by Yoon-Kyoung Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Min-Soo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyung-Sik Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byeong-Gi Yoo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yeon-Jung Hwang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joong-Hyun Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Won-Hee Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jin-Chul Yang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong-Hyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ji-Yun Cha (Yangsan-si, South Korea) and Uk Heo (Incheon, South Korea).
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