US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 9 for "Apparatus for controlling vehicle, method for controlling charging of vehicle, and system for charging vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,379, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling vehicle, method for controlling charging of vehicle, and system for charging vehicle" was invented by Young Sik Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle control apparatus includes a memory, a network interface, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to recognize that a charging cable is connected to a vehicle, receive a charging end time of a preceding vehicle and a waiting time until charging of the vehicle starts, wait for the charging in a ...