ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,356, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co.; (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and method for controlling battery temperature or output based on states of health" was invented by Soo Yang Jin (Whasung-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a memory storing a program instruction and a processor that executes the program instruction. The processor obtains reference states of health (SOHs) for each vehicle type, which are determined through evaluation of durability of...