US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for determining use mode of swappable electric vehicle battery" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,991, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for determining use mode of swappable electric vehicle battery" was invented by Min Su Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a swappable battery detachably mounted in a vehicle which includes a main battery fixed therein, includes determining a use mode among a plurality of modes which are different in a charge amount of charging the main battery by the swappable battery based on destination information of a navigation system, and controlling the swappabl...