US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 24 for "Method of controlling torque of drive system of electric vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,699, issued on June 24, 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) and Jeong Soo Eo (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a torque of a drive system of an electric vehicle, includes determining, by a controller, a total torque command based on required torque according to a vehicle driving state while driving of the vehicle, determining whether a backlash band evasion mode is in an ON state or an OFF state, front wheel torque ...