US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus for controlling a vehicle and a method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,928, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling a vehicle and a method thereof" was invented by Tae Kyu Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a battery controller, a driving controller, and a notification device, wherein the battery controller may obtain state information of a battery, calculate remaining energy of the battery, and determine whether energy of the battery is excessively consumed, and the driving controller may obtain ...