US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle distance to empty prediction apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,946, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle distance to empty prediction apparatus and method" was invented by Ki Hyung Joo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle distance to empty (DTE) prediction apparatus and a method therefor include a processor configured to define a DTE prediction model of a vehicle based on a linear regression model reflecting a Bayesian probability distribution, and to predict a DTE by learning the DTE prediction model based on driving data of the vehicle; and a storage configured to store data and al...