ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,034, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for testing an interworking function between multimedia devices and method thereof" was invented by Seong Un Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Seung Yeun Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Youl Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyung Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for testing a multimedia device includes a database log tracking device that transmits a log of a first terminal and a processor that monitors the log to detect a predetermined event, obtains event execution inform...