ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,211, issued on April 21, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Cloud-based electric vehicle battery optimization systems and methods" was invented by Mark Gerban (Hamburg, Germany), Andre Moller (Stuttgart, Germany) and Abhishek Mantha (Upland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing system may be configured to obtain sensor data associated with the vehicle and determine an estimated energy usage for performing a computation onboard the vehicle using the sensor data. The estimated energy usage is indicative of an estimated amount of energy from one or more batteries of the vehicle for perfo...