US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 27 for "Apparatus for controlling ITM for vehicle and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,731, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling ITM for vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Jang Hyo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated thermal management valve (ITM) control apparatus of a vehicle includes a driving information generator that generates driving information of the vehicle, a refrigerant pressure measuring device that measures a refrigerant pressure of a vehicle air conditioner of the vehicle, and an ITM controller that is configured to control the ITM of the vehicle, according to...