ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,190, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Yong Joon Lee (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Hae Yun Kwon (Incheon, South Korea) and Sun Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a first controller configured to control communication associated with a vehicle, a controller configured to control one or more hardware components of the vehicle, and memory storing power state information. The firs...