US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Dec. 30 for "Method for battery conditioning of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,950, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for battery conditioning of vehicle" was invented by Jin Gyu Lim (Gumi-si, South Korea), Joong Woo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seung Myun Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Geun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: receiving charging scheduling information including a scheduled vehicle departure time and a destination set by a user through an interface unit; determining whether a remaining time to the scheduled vehicle departure time from ...