ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,764, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for correcting OCV of vehicle battery and method thereof" was invented by Sang Jin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyung Hyun Lim (Hanam-si, South Korea) and Jun Ho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for correcting an open circuit voltage (OCV) of a vehicle battery includes a storage configured to store a base OCV map for a low-voltage battery of a vehicle and a controller configured to convert the base OCV map into a target OCV map by using status information of ...