US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for reducing current drainage from a battery of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,432, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for reducing current drainage from a battery of a vehicle" was invented by Seung Yong Kwak (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method embodiments for reducing current-drainage from a battery of a vehicle, can include a network monitor configured to monitor a network state, a vehicle usage pattern learner configured to determine a usage pattern of the vehicle by time of each day of a week based on a monitoring result of the network monitor and determine cut-off lo...