US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 6 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,663, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Kwang Hae Ye (Seoul, South Korea), Do Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Hoon Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a sensor to determine whether to transmit a signal related to a recharging operation for a low voltage battery. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to determine whether to wake up, based on whether the signal related to the recharging operation for the low ...