ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,287, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for conditioning vehicle battery" was invented by Tae Hyuck Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for conditioning a vehicle battery are proposed. The system for conditioning a vehicle battery may include a temperature controller configured to adjust a temperature of the vehicle battery, and one or more processors configured to obtain determination factor data. The determination factor data may include vehicle condition data ...