ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,664, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Method and system for managing mileage capacity of a battery electric vehicle (BEV)" was invented by Guillaume Charoulet (Rouen, France) and Florian Beaufrere (Rouen, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing mileage capacity of a BEV having a TRU includes obtaining live vehicle data via an ECU of the BEV and determining a rate of consumption of energy stored in the energy storage unit and an efficiency of BEV's components based on the live vehicle data. The method further includes triggering an operation mode of the BEV based on th...