ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,054, issued on April 21, was assigned to LINAMAR Corp. (Guelph, Canada).
"Intelligent vehicle controller" was invented by Bogdan Havrisciuc (Romulus, Mich.) and Edward N. Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for monitoring the operation of a vehicle powered by a fuel cell and a battery. The method comprises the steps of determining an energy capacity of the vehicle, estimating an energy required for the vehicle to travel on a route to a destination, determining whether the energy required is greater than the energy capacity, and if it is determined that the energy required is greater than the...