US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on April 8 for "Upper body inner panel assembly of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,536, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Upper body inner panel assembly of vehicle" was invented by Jin Young Mo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ho Yeon Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Tae Gyu Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyun Cheol Yun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment upper body inner panel assembly of a vehicle includes a front inner panel and a rear inner panel disposed at a front and a rear of an upper body of the vehicle, respectively, wherein the upper body includes a plurality of pipes, wherein each of the front inner panel...