US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 21 for "Automatic sterilizer system for a trunk and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,222, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automatic sterilizer system for a trunk and control method therefor" was invented by Kwang-Soon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic sterilizer system for a trunk includes a goods sensor for sensing an existence of goods or a change amount of a location or height of goods in the trunk; an ultraviolet lamp for irradiating ultraviolet rays to an inside of the trunk; a camera sensor for photographing an image in the inside of the trunk; an air injection unit for injecting air to the inside of...