US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,913, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Jung Hun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of controlling a vehicle includes a memory, a network interface, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to transfer information related to a state of the vehicle to a battery sensor that measures a state of charge (SOC) value of an auxiliary battery of the vehicle and to control the battery sensor so that the battery sensor determines whether to transfer a request for a...