ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,451, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method" was invented by Min Seok Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a memory storing a program instruction and a processor configured to execute the program instruction. The processor is configured to provide input data at a current time point to a vehicle required power model. The input data includes at least one of a relative speed between a preceding vehicle and a host vehicle, a speed of the host vehicle, gradient infor...