US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 24 for "Cooling system for vehicle driven by in-wheel motor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,692, issued on June 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooling system for vehicle driven by in-wheel motor" was invented by Yeon Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Ho Young Jeong (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for a vehicle driven by in-wheel motors includes a cooling water channel provided in an in-wheel motor mounted on a wheel of a vehicle so that cooling water for cooling the in-wheel motor can pass through the cooling water channel, a cooling water channel provided in an inverter for driving...