ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,434, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Sok Young Yun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Min Kyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Taek Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Jun Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a hybrid electric vehicle in which a torque converter is disposed between a motor and a transmission for driving the hybrid electric vehicle comprises, by a control unit, determining a driver demand torque and an output speed of the tor...