US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 27 for "Apparatus and method for controlling power factor correction to suppress overcurrent" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,214, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling power factor correction to suppress overcurrent" was invented by Jee Heon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Gyun Woo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chul Soon Kim (Guri-si, South Korea), Hui Sung Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sung Uk Park (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment control device includes a voltage controller configured to output an input current command value of a power factor correction (PFC) based on an output voltage and an output voltage...