ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,715, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle luggage box" was invented by Doo Young Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle luggage box includes an inner housing disposed between multiple pillar members arranged in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and bent so as to protrude upward from an upper body of the vehicle and to connect sides of the upper body, the inner housing having a box shape to allow an item to be loaded therein and having an opening part openable toward a lateral side of the vehicle, a gate co...