ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,184, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Electric vehicle driving range optimizer" was invented by Nick Harker (Renton, Wash.) and Andrew Harbach (Argyle, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing electric vehicle drive range optimization. Various vehicle data is collected from various sources and analyzed to derive vehicle parameters related to estimating a driving range of an electric vehicle, such as battery state of charge, an energy consumption rate, an efficiency factor, historical driving patterns, climate control usage, auxiliary accessory usage, etc. The vehicle para...