ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,869, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Seat control apparatus and method" was invented by Kug Hun Han (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Hwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Mun Seung Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control apparatus includes a first driving part, a second driving part and a controller. The apparatus is configured to receive a user input on a walk-in mode through an input part, and based on the received user input, the apparatus controls a slide location of a seat to a walk-in location area corresponding to the walk...