US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 7 for "Method of diagnosing malfunction of OBD controller system of hybrid electric vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,626, issued on July 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of diagnosing malfunction of OBD controller system of hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Bon-Chang Koo (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A malfunction of an on-board diagnostic (OBD) controller system is diagnosed by comparing a voltage of an input part of an OBD controller with a voltage of a battery. The OBD controller is connected to the battery through a communication line in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). When an input voltage measuring circuit or the controller is malfunctio...