ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,955, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and SEKONIX Co. LTD. (Dongduccheon-si, South Korea).

"Water-repellent coating lens for a camera and a manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jai-Min Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung-Kyu Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kwang-Joon Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ji-Woong Yeon (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and Jin-Ho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-repellent coating lens for a camera has enhanced abrasion resistance performance and chemical resistance performance of the water-repellent ...