ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,604, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for transmitting and receiving signals in communication system" was invented by Gene Back Hahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Kil Suh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ui Hyun Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bum Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeonghyeon Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Wan Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a first communication node in a communication system includes the steps of: rec...