ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,729, issued on March 31, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Load balancing approach to execute cost optimization in multi-mode and multi-gear hybrid electric vehicles" was invented by Stefan Senft (Essen, Germany), Gokul Maharaj Badrinath (Shelby Township, Mich.), Andryas Mawardi (Rochester, Mich.) and Nadirsh Patel (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control technique for balancing controller computational processing loads in a vehicle includes determining a set of allowed functions from a plurality of functions executable by the controller based on a set of constraints corresponding to a set o...