ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,481, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Flight control apparatus for aerial vehicle and method of operating same" was invented by Hong Ju Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea), Gun Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Hye In Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyu Nam Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyun Jee Ryu (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Chang Hyun Sung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jun Young Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a flight control apparatus for an aerial vehicle and a method of operating the same. The flight control apparatus includes ...