US Patent Issued to Oregon State University on Sept. 1 for "Hybrid and electric vehicle energy routing tool" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,884, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Hybrid and electric vehicle energy routing tool" was invented by David Hamilton (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a map of energy utilization by a vehicle to facilitate routing, the method comprises selecting a start point and an end point for a vehicle within a route network. The method includes estimating an energy utilization for one or more routes within the route network for the vehicle from the start point to one or more respective intermediate points within the route network and from the one or more respect...