ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,525, issued on March 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Universal drive" was invented by Woo Hyun Lim (Incheon, South Korea), Ki Seok Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyoung Chul Min (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jong Sool Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dae In Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Yeo Hae Lee (Gunpo-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal drive including a ring gear, a sun gear in which a sun gear axis is moveable relative to a ring gear axis of the ring gear, a gear train constituted by a series of gears configured to connect the sun gear a...