ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,297, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method therefor" was invented by Hae Yun Kwon (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle control apparatus, method, and system. The vehicle control apparatus may include a communication control device that sets, based on a host vehicle satisfying a power-off condition, a sleep state non-entry detection time. The sleep state non-entry detection time may be based on a vehicle state of the host vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus may detect at least one cont...