US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 17 for "Intelligent route determination and electric vehicle range prediction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,198, issued on March 17, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Intelligent route determination and electric vehicle range prediction" was invented by Ali Abdulsaid (Northville, Mich.), Mark D Cesamer (Royal Oak, Mich.), Katherine K Morrow-Abraham (East China, Mich.) and Vanessa K Vitso (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route optimization system for a battery electric vehicle (BEV) includes a controller programmed to perform the following operations. Determine a navigational route to a destination. Determine a predicted intelligent energy consumption of the BEV based on a set of vehicle operating conditi...