US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 16 for "Apparatus and method for converting and distributing regenerative power" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,587, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for converting and distributing regenerative power" was invented by Kyeong Soo Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for converting and distributing regenerative power includes: a controller configured to permit or restrict a V2L function depending on a state of charge (SOC) value of a battery, compare regenerative power generated from a motor according to regenerative braking with a preset electric load required power and/or a V2L required power, and control...