ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,149, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Automatic removal system for reservoir cap" was invented by Jun Young Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic removal system for a reservoir cap is provided. The system includes a removal robot including a polyarticular robot arm, a finger that is installed at an end of the robot arm to move forwards and backwards through a cylinder and grips or releases the reservoir cap, a rotary motor that rotates the finger, and a gripping mechanism equipped with a detection sensor that monitors a f...