ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,735, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Control method for cooling powertrain component" was invented by Ki Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is a control method for cooling a powertrain component, the method including in response to a destination being input to a navigation, determining estimated high-load driving timing of the powertrain component based on estimated driving information of a vehicle, and in response to a determination that a temperature difference between the actual temperature of the powertrain compone...