US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 31 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,628, issued on March 31, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" was invented by Dae Kwang Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Min Soo Woo (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method. The vehicle control apparatus may calculate a total sum of consumed power according to at least one of power consumed due to an air resistance, power consumed due to an operation of a cooling fan that increases flow of air introduced into an under-hood of a vehicle,...