US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 10 for "Variable wheel arch garnish and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,194, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Variable wheel arch garnish and control method thereof" was invented by Un-Tae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gyeong-Min Hwang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable wheel arch garnish assembly includes a wheel arch garnish mounted on an outer surface of a wheel arch which surrounds a wheel and is connected to a vehicle body, and a flap rotatably coupled to an outer surface of the wheel arch garnish, wherein, when the flap is rotated and controlled to be opened in a side direction of th...