ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,989, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method" was invented by Ju Seok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yo Han Baek (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Yoo Hong Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor monitors at least one of battery energy information or charging information of a vehicle. The processor determines whether to generate at least one of first pattern information for setting a charging range of a battery of the vehicle or...