ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,580, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control device and method thereof" was invented by Hyun Jun Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Woo Sung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Min Jun Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control device includes a plurality of battery cells, a processor, and a memory. The processor is configured to identify first time constants of each of the battery cells, when a vehicle maintains a no-load state during a specified time, ob...