US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, MOBINN on Sept. 9 for "Wheel and mobility including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,681, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and MOBINN INC. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wheel and mobility including 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: "A wheel includes a deformable part reversibly deformable in shape by an external force, wherein the deformable part includes an inner region having a shape extending in a peripheral direction, an outer region having a shape extending in the peripheral direction and spaced apart outward ...