ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,408, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lost article management method, device, and system in vehicle" was invented by Nahyeon Pak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lost article management method in a vehicle includes: generating first detection information by detecting a passenger or an article by using a first camera or first sensor installed in the vehicle and separated by a first distance from a seated point of the passenger; generating second detection information by detecting the passenger or the article by using a second camera...