ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,241, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Geo-fence alarm method and system for providing the method" was invented by Sunghwan Moon (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geo-fence alarm system determines an entry of a moving object into a destination zone or an exit of the moving object from the destination zone and generates an alarm message. In particular, the system includes: a mobile terminal which generates a geo-fence boundary line of the destination zone according to a predetermined setting reference and maps the generated geo-fence bo...