US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 24 for "Battery pre-conditioning system and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,997, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pre-conditioning system and operating method thereof" was invented by Jin Woo Yang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yong Seok Park (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method of operating a battery pre-conditioning system includes checking charging station information including an estimated waiting time for a charging start from arrival at a charging station when an input for a destination corresponds to the charging station and starting a battery warming based on a target temp...