ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,006, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and YURA CORPORATION CO., LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for protecting battery pack" was invented by Jae Min Kwon (Incheon, South Korea), Kang Woo Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chan Young Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Bo Ko Choi (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for protecting a battery pack is configured to release reverse connection of the battery pack by detecting the reverse connection of the battery pack even in a case where the reverse connection of the battery pa...