US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Systems and methods to predict and apply regenerative braking" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,334, issued on March 24.

"Systems and methods to predict and apply regenerative braking" was invented by Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.) and Brennan Hamilton (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to predict and apply regenerative braking using GPS (global positioning system) and IMU (inertial measurement unit) data. Techniques described herein may be utilized to use a vehicle's current GPS position and IMU sensor data to determine charging availability for electric or hybrid vehicles. IMU and/or GPS data is used to determine a next path prediction and detect next route elevation lev...