US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Aug. 19 for "Vehicle and mobile device for activating a digital key" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,214, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (South, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (South, South Korea).

"Vehicle and mobile device for activating a digital key" was invented by Yocheol Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), HeeJin Ro (Seoul, South Korea) and Duckyoung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a vehicle and/or a mobile device obtains relative position information of surrounding wireless communication apparatuses based on received signal strengths of the wireless communication apparatuses received by a communication device, generates the relative positions of the wireless communic...