US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 17 for "Battery temperature control apparatus and method for electric vehicles" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,242, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery temperature control apparatus and method for electric vehicles" was invented by Dae Gun Jin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin Gyu Lim (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea), Seung Myun Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Geun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery temperature control apparatus for electric vehicles, the battery temperature control apparatus including a temperature measurement unit configured to measure a temperature of a battery mounted in an electric vehicle, a display unit ...