US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 17 for "Apparatus of controlling engine and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,695, issued on June 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus of controlling engine and method thereof" was invented by Minjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hee Yong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of controlling an engine includes a controller determining an inflow fuel amount adsorbed on an inner wall of a cylinder, and introduced into an oil pan based on the density of a combustion chamber and a post injection fuel amount, determining a vaporization fuel amount vaporized in the inflow fuel amount based on an operating conditi...