US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 21 for "Personal mobility device and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,219, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Personal mobility device and control method thereof" was invented by Seunghyun Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yul Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Rowoon An (Seoul, South Korea) and Soobin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal mobility device including handle grips coupled to both ends of a handle, a sterilization and drying unit disposed inside a frame of the handle and including an ultraviolet (UV) generator and a fan, and a controller configured to turn on the UV generator and the fan, based o...