US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 30 for "Adaptive thermal cooling mechanism apparatus, system and method for vehicle processor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,258, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Adaptive thermal cooling mechanism apparatus, system and method for vehicle processor" was invented by Hong Yeol Lim (Incheon, South Korea) and Soo Ho Baek (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling mechanism apparatus, system, and method for adaptively controlling heat of a vehicle processor, includes a processor configured to control deactivation or activation of an application driving the in-vehicle controller depending on grades of a predetermined functional safety level of the application and to d...