ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,083, issued on March 18, was assigned to Korea Automotive Technology Institute (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"System for and method of controlling in-vehicle environment based on purpose of using vehicle" was invented by Sun Hong Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Dong Woon Ryu (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Young Dal Oh (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jin Hae Yae (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Hun Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Dong Han Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a system for and a method of controlling an in-vehicle environment based on the purpose of using a vehicle. The system includes a recognition...