ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,042, issued on March 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Call dispatch method and call dispatch control server" was invented by Kyungjin You (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A call dispatch method and server is provided, in which when call request information is transmitted from a user terminal to a control server, the control server may transmit the call information to one or more driver terminals in consideration of a call score and the like, and a driver may select a call keep function through a driver terminal, thereby withholding determination...