ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,221, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Rowoon An (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yul Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Soobin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghyun Woo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle includes a user interface configured to guide a route to a destination and receive a user input and a controller configured to determine whether a highlight mark for a point of interest corresponding to the destination is set, control the user interface to display a pop-up messag...