US Patent Issued to Karma Automotive on Sept. 8 for "Adaptive eco cruise strategy for improved electric vehicle efficiency and range" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,851, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Karma Automotive Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Adaptive eco cruise strategy for improved electric vehicle efficiency and range" was invented by Hyungjun Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Mehrdad Mirzaei (Irvine, Calif.) and Sina Hamzehlouia (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an eco-cruise control request that includes a requested cruise control velocity and a velocity tolerance. The eco-cruise control request instructs an drive unit to operate a vehicle at a velocity within the velocity tolerance of the requested cruise control velocity. The method also includes determinin...