ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,383, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for diagnosing vehicle battery by using big data" was invented by Hyun Jun Jang (Daegu, South Korea), Byung Soo Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo Sung Kim (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Jae Shin Yi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are system and method for diagnosing a vehicle battery by using big data. Battery-related data may be collected through communication from multiple vehicles. A reference battery temperature distribution for each driving condition may be derived by a learn...