ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,344, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Call dispatch control system and call dispatch control service providing method" was invented by Yunjoong Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongtaek Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Byeonghwi Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method for providing a call dispatch control service includes receiving, by a call server, event information from a taxi terminal corresponding to an empty car signal indicating that a passenger has exited a vehicle or a driving signal indicating that the passe...