US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 20 for "Power control apparatus and method for an in-vehicle ECU" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,071, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power control apparatus and method for an in-vehicle ECU" was invented by Dong Hwan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control apparatus includes a main switch that supplies or cuts off power to in-vehicle electronic control units (ECUs). The power control apparatus also includes a backup switch that supplies or cuts off the power to the in-vehicle ECUs. The power control apparatus additionally includes a storage that stores a lookup table in which inrush current values respectively...