US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 29 for "Vehicle-building docking system and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,874, issued on July 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle-building docking system and method of controlling the same" was invented by Ki Hyun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyung Sik Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Heon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-building docking system and a method of controlling the same include a lower weather strip coupled to a lower door frame, an upper weather strip coupled to an upper door frame and configured to slide upwards or downwards together with the upper door frame with respect to the lower w...