US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Dec. 23 for "Device and method for controlling state of charge of battery of hybrid vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,007, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling state of charge of battery of hybrid vehicle" was invented by Kyoung Joo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for controlling an SOC of a battery of a hybrid vehicle are provided. The device includes at least one processor, and the processor sets a battery SOC at a time of terminating operation of the vehicle by activating a SOC setting function when a destination is set. The processor further determines whether the set battery SOC is equal to o...