ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,612, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and system for providing ride positioning service" was invented by Kyungjin You (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ride positioning service providing method includes: by service providing server, receiving starting position and destination along with call request from user terminal, receiving non-preference option for specific road type from driver terminals, determining each of the driver terminals as walking ride group or general ride group according to whether a road to which the starting pos...