ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,901, issued on April 22, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method for providing fleet service based on smell information and apparatus for the same" was invented by Jae Jun Ha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Jun Moon (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Tae Hee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a fleet service based on smell information includes, while the moving object is being used in the fleet system, monitoring smell information of a moving object, controlling an operation of the moving object based on the smell information, and...