US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for controlling bidirectional on board charger of electric vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,087, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (South, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling bidirectional on board charger of electric vehicle" was invented by Jae Hyun Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Sung Uk Park (Busan, South Korea), Hyun-Wook Seong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong Gyun Woo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for an electric vehicle includes an indoor power outlet configured to receive power through one of a plurality of lines except for a single-phase alternating current (AC) charging line among three-phase AC...