US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 28 for "Vehicle and control method for executing a power saving mode" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,187, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method for executing a power saving mode" was invented by Un Chon (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control method includes receiving information on a state of a main battery from a battery controller to a power controller so that a vehicle operates in a power saving mode, receiving, by the power controller, information on a possible travel distance of the vehicle determined by a drive controller using information on a charge amount of the main battery, receiving info...