ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,957, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co.; (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Server, system, and method for providing energy efficiency management service" was invented by Cheon Maeng (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy efficiency management service providing server may include a communication module configured to communicate with external devices, and a processor operatively connected to the communication module and configured to determine per-electronic component energy consumption ratios relative to battery energy consumed over a predetermined time period based on ...