US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 8 for "Handle assembly with a pop-in cover for a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,082, issued on July 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Handle assembly with a pop-in cover for a vehicle" was invented by Se-Hoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door for a vehicle includes: an external panel forming an appearance surface of the door, an operation groove and a handle assembly; the handle assembly includes a handle installed on the external panel to close a first part of the operation groove, a cover rotatably installed on the external panel and configured to close a second part of the operation groove so as to fully close the ope...