US Patent Issued to Hyundai Kefico on April 8 for "Electric vehicle state control method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,481, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hyundai Kefico Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Electric vehicle state control method and device" was invented by Sil Lo Jin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), In Keun Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Se Hee Byun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Seung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle state control device of the present disclosure relates to an electric vehicle state notification device having, as states for operation safety related to parking/stopping, a key-on state in which a throttle is inactivated, a startup state in which the throttle is activated, an...