US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 25 for "Device and method for controlling power supply in a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,422, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling power supply in a vehicle" was invented by Seok Ju Byun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling a vehicle includes an input device that receives an input of a user, and a processor that determines whether to supply power to a first controller for controlling a function selected based on a selection scheme and a second controller for controlling an unselected function when a utility mode is activated based on the input of the user and then th...