ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,995, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery conditioning system and method" was invented by Hyun Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Hyuck Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery conditioning system and method configured to shorten charging time and block energy consumption due to unnecessary conditioning by performing battery pre-conditioning in a timely manner through collecting customer charging tendency data, etc., using big data and generating a charging scenario by combining charge-inducing factors to perform pre-condition...