US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and method for predicting and avoiding degradation of electrical drive components in a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,847, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for predicting and avoiding degradation of electrical drive components in a vehicle" was invented by Esther Alberts (Munich) and Marcel Ewers (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for predicting and avoiding degradation of an electrical drive component in a vehicle. A determination unit determines road attributes of a planned route of the vehicle. A prediction unit continuously predicts a type of degradation of an electrical drive component in the vehicle with respect to the determined road attributes. I...