US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for generating route guidance for electric vehicle using battery power state information" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,992, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating route guidance for electric vehicle using battery power state information" was invented by Un Chon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation apparatus generates route guidance for an electric vehicle based on information on a battery power state of the electric vehicle. The navigation apparatus includes a driving route generating unit, a battery information acquiring unit, a mileage calculating unit and a driving information setting unit. The driving route ...