ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,220, issued on July 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and MOBINN INC. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobile object and method of controlling the same" was invented by Sun Myoung Jo (Ansan-si, South Korea), Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hoon Chung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mobile object including a body part, a drive part coupled to one side of the body part and including one or more wheels, and an accommodation part coupled to the other side of the body part and having an internal space capable of accommodating an article, in which...