US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, YURA, on Sept. 16 for "Device for protecting a connector of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,137, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and YURA CORPORATION CO., LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Device for protecting a connector of a vehicle" was invented by Jun Hyung Ahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong Uk Kim (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector protection device for a vehicle is configured to protect an electrical connector to prevent the connector from being chipped or damaged. The device protects the electrical connector by covering the same with a grommet. When the electrical connector is covered with the gromme...