US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on May 27 for "Hybrid electric vehicle and a shift control method for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,914, issued on May 27, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hybrid electric vehicle and a shift control method for same" was invented by Seul Gi Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sang Kook Woo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Won Bin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soo Bang Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Myoung Pi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift control method of a hybrid electric vehicle includes: determining a speed control torque based on a result of comparing a speed of an input end of a transmission with a target speed of the input end of the trans...