US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 18 for "System and method for providing taxi service" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,524, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for providing taxi service" was invented by Yunjoong Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongtaek Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Byeonghwi Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a taxi service includes an integrated terminal connected to a payment server through a network, wherein the integrated terminal includes a meter unit configured to calculate an operation fee of a vehicle by using global positioning system (GPS) information or information collected by a sens...