US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 15 for "Virtual odometer for electric vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,371, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Virtual odometer for electric vehicles" was invented by Justin Bunnell (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Andrew M. Zettel (Port Moody, Canada) and Yanyan Zhang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a virtual distance corresponding to power supplied by an electric vehicle (EV) to offboard loads includes monitoring one or more enabling conditions comprising at least one of a speed of the EV, an active/inactive mode for supplying power to one or more V2X loads, a net charging/discharging state of a battery of the electric veh...