ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,969, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method to determine contextual road clearance for electrical vehicles" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France) and Jeremy Michael Young (Beverly Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to determine a stranded electric vehicle resilience index of an area for an electric vehicle (EV) is disclosed. The system may use an API to determine areas in a region with minimal EV charging capabilities; generate a first trained machine learning model to predict a first probability for a given EV to be stranded in the areas based on a traini...