US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on Jan. 27 for "Device and method for controlling vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,033, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Se Hoon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling a vehicle includes a sensor that obtains state information of the vehicle, and a power controller which is configured to determine whether an activation condition of a dark current blocking control function is satisfied based on the state information of the vehicle, determines whether a power control mode is selected when the activation condition of the dark current ...