US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, YURA, on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,979, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and YURA CORPORATION CO., LTD (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Sehoon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), In Sic Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Taewon Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle includes a battery, a switch configured to identify whether a state of a power of the vehicle is in a normal state or an abnormal state by monitoring the power of the vehicle and to control a supply of a battery power of the battery based on the state...