US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 4 for "Opening and closing device for glove boxes" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,289, issued on March 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Opening and closing device for glove boxes" was invented by Jung Hoon Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwan Woo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Ku Hur (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ik Jin Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jin Tae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opening and closing device, which opens and closes a glove box includes a housing coupled to the glove box, a handle rotatably mounted on the housing, a locking unit mounted so as to be movable in directions of releasing the glove b...