US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for diagnosing thermostat fault of engine cooling system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,087, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for diagnosing thermostat fault of engine cooling system" was invented by Bon-Chang Koo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method diagnoses a thermostat of an engine cooling system, where the thermostat provided at a heater core installed at a rear end of an evaporator of a heating and cooling path and at an engine coolant path formed to circulate coolant through an engine. The method includes receiving, by a diagnostic module, an operating current of a blower motor configured t...