US Patent Issued to FCA US on May 26 for "System for vehicle range estimation in view of driver specific energy use" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,298, issued on May 26, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"System for vehicle range estimation in view of driver specific energy use" was invented by Chunjian Wang (Troy, Mich.), Drushan A Mavalankar (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Halim G Santoso (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing route information to a driver, includes determining a travel path for a trip to a destination, determining segments of the travel path, determining a driving style of a driver of the vehicle, determining an energy use model for vehicle energy use along the travel path that is based in part on the driving style, est...