US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 3 for "Hybrid electric vehicle and power control method for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,187, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hybrid electric vehicle and power control method for same" was invented by Han Nah Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Min Gyun Jo (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a hybrid electric vehicle and a power control method for the hybrid electric vehicle. The power control method includes: determining an engine load region of the vehicle, learning an actual torque of an engine based on the amount of power generated by at least one motor corresponding to th...