ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,996, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for controlling vehicle thermal management system" was invented by Tae Han Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method for controlling a vehicle thermal management system includes determining a target temperature of an evaporator by subtracting a predetermined temperature from a measured temperature of the evaporator, in a case in which only interior cooling of a passenger compartment is performed and a measured temperature of an inverter is hi...