US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 23 for "Doorless fuel cap system for vehicle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,629, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Doorless fuel cap system for vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Chang Han Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Jun Sik Lim (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Seung Hoon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Gil-eon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment fuel cap system includes a filler neck connected to a fuel pipe, a fuel cap having a cylindrical shape and able to be coupled to the filler neck by rotation, a sliding rod extending from an upper surface of the fuel cap in a shaft direction at...