US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on July 21 for "Power management device and vehicle having the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,286, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power management device and vehicle having the same" was invented by Un Chon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controls the distributor to cut off the power supplied to the drive motor in a standby mode and control the standby mode to be switched to an OFF mode when a preset time elapses from a start time point of the standby mode. The vehicle extends a time for which the standby mode is performed or controls power to be immediately turned off when power extension time information or...