US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 29 for "Apparatus for controlling in-car temperature of autonomous vehicle, system including the same, and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,863, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling in-car temperature of autonomous vehicle, system including the same, and method thereof" was invented by Dong Hyuk Kim (Hanam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, a system, and a method for controlling an in-car temperature of an autonomous vehicle are provided. The control server determines an expected in-car temperature according to a re-riding time of each of one or more parking positions corresponding to a destination or a re-riding position of an autonomous vehicle,...