ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,915, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Rehabilitation robot control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Seung Kyu Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Ju Young Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae Jun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Beom Su Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jae Seung Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Adedoyin Olumuyiwa Aderinwale (Daejeon, South Korea), Jun Ha Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong Hwa Jeong (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradem...