US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 8 for "Method of implementing a preparation mode for circuit driving of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,486, issued on April 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of implementing a preparation mode for circuit driving of a vehicle" was invented by Dong Hyeon Woo (Daegu, South Korea), Ho Kyun Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Kyeom Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing a preparation mode capable of improving driving performance of a vehicle by warming up a vehicle component before racing is provided. The method includes acquiring vehicle state information detected by a vehicle state detector while the vehicle is driven on a c...