US Patent Issued to Hyundai Kefico on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle control apparatus and method for performing torque control of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,397, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyundai Kefico Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and method for performing torque control of vehicle" was invented by Hyun Ki Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Eun Sang Park (Gyonggi-do, South Korea) and Byung Gun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes: a vehicle state judgment unit that judges a transverse driving control state and a longitudinal driving control state of a vehicle when detecting that a torque of a vehicle power source is abnormal, and judges a normal power source when the transverse driving control ...