ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,206, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Cap assembly" was invented by Jung Jun Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap assembly includes a retainer member provided at an outlet end of a discharge line through which a target fluid is discharged to the outside in a gravitational direction, the retainer member having a guide hole configured to guide the target fluid to the outside, a cap member configured to be movable from a first position at which the cap member closes the guide hole to a second position at which the cap member opens the ...