US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for protecting a passenger of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,970, issued on July 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for protecting a passenger of a vehicle" was invented by Jong Won Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Youn Sic Nam (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for protecting a passenger of a vehicle that may minimize impact energy transmitted to a passenger by realizing rotation, position change, and space securing of an interior seat according to sensor detection of an external impact to a vehicle. The apparatus for protecting a passenger includes at least one sea...