US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 20 for "Vehicle with charging progress notification and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,341, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle with charging progress notification and method of controlling the same" was invented by Youngbeom Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is capable of preventing unnecessary noise from being generated by outputting a sound for guiding a charging progress state only when a user can listen to the sound output from the vehicle. The vehicle includes a charging management system configured to output an electrical signal corresponding to a charging progress state of the vehicle; a sound ...