US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 15 for "Coupling structure of rear end module and side member" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,568, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Coupling structure of rear end module and side member" was invented by Hae-Hoon Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Tae-Gyu Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young-Rock Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jung-Ho Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hee-Suk Chung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a coupling structure of a rear end module and a side member, in which the rear end module is coupled to a roof side member or a middle member located on a side surface...