US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle thermal management system and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,942, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle thermal management system and method for controlling the same" was invented by Tae Woong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jun Ho Baek (Ansan-si, South Korea), Joon Hyung Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong Myeong Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle thermal management system includes a HVAC subsystem; a power electronics cooling subsystem; a plurality of heat recovery drive components; and a controller. The controller includes a required heat calculation module to calculate ...