US Patent Issued to FCA US on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle control in a reduced power mode" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,730, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle control in a reduced power mode" was invented by Anthony N Gorney (Oxford, Mich.) and Stephanie R Beck (Pinckney, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least some implementations, a method includes determining that a vehicle is operating in a reduced power mode, determining a destination of the vehicle, determining more than one route to the destination, determining one or more energy thresholds for each route, selecting one of the routes as a chosen route, and guiding the vehicle along the chosen route. The chose route may be selected based on th...