US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and method for piston insertion" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,102, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for piston insertion" was invented by Seung Yeop Lee (Ulsan, South Korea), Dong Ho Kwak (Ulsan, South Korea), Yong Tae Kim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Young Seok Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus for piston insertion, including an insertion robot having a plurality of robot arms connected by a plurality of articulated joints, a piston insertion module directly mounted on the insertion robot, gripping a piston assembly, and inserting the piston assembly ...