US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 28 for "Hybrid electric vehicle and a method of controlling driving of a motor therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,865, issued on July 28, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hybrid electric vehicle and a method of controlling driving of a motor therefor" was invented by Min Su Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method of controlling motor driving of a hybrid electric vehicle. Sum torque of a first motor, which is directly connected to an engine, and a second motor, which is directly connected to an input end of a transmission, are determined based on request torque and torque distributed to the engine. One of a first synthetic efficiency map and a...