US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method for providing distance to empty information for a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,402, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing distance to empty information for a vehicle" was invented by Kyeong Soo Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides information on a distance to empty (DTE) of a vehicle and an information providing apparatus performs the method. The method includes: determining average fuel efficiency based on a travel distance of a vehicle and the cumulative amount of electrical power consumption after start of one driving cycle by vehicle key-on; determining short f...