ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,181, issued on April 21, was assigned to Great Wall Motor Co. Ltd. (Baoding, China).

"Method and apparatus for predicting average energy consumption of an electric vehicle" was invented by Maiqing Wu (Baoding, China), Gang Yan (Baoding, China), Xu Shi (Baoding, China), Xuejing Li (Baoding, China), Dandan Song (Baoding, China), Shengbo Wang (Baoding, China), Nan Zhang (Baoding, China) and Chunmei Zhang (Baoding, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for predicting an average energy consumption of an electric vehicle. The method comprises: according to a real-...