ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,603, issued on April 14, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).
"Carbon footprint optimized timely E-truck transportation" was invented by Minghua Chen (Hong Kong), Junyan Su (Hong Kong) and Qiulin Lin (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carbon footprint optimization of an electric vehicle, such as a heavy-duty e-truck, traveling in a trip across a highway network subject to a hard deadline constraint and one or more battery state-of-charge (SoC) constraints is carried out by co-determining a route plan, a speed plan and an intermediary charging plan for the electric vehicle with an objective of minimizing a...