ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,309, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling torque of drive system of electric vehicle" was invented by Ji Won Oh (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling torque of a drive system of an electric vehicle includes determining, by a controller, required torque according to a vehicle driving state while the vehicle is driven, and determining a total torque command based on the determined required torque, and performing, by the controller, a front wheel and rear wheel torque distribution process on the tota...