ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,468, issued on April 21, was assigned to EXERGI PREDICTIVE LLC (Hugo, Minn.).

"Machine learning based generation and use of synthetic drive cycles" was invented by Harish Panneer Selvam (Littleton, Colo.), Andrew Kotz (Denver) and William Northrop (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using machine learning to generate and use synthetic drive cycles of mobile actors such as a moving person or a mobile machine, as well as technologies for using machine learning to generate and use synthetic duty cycles of mobile machines. Synthetic drive or duty cycle generation and use can be for a person or machine moving from ...