ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,543, issued on June 16, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Fleet-specific performance impact of vehicle configuration" was invented by Varun Ramesh (Bellingham, Wash.), Carl Hergart (Bellingham, Wash.), Cynthia Chaffin Webb (Sedro-Woolley, Wash.) and Jorge Rafael Lozada Ramirez (Cerrada del Sol, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of systems, method, and computer-readable storage media are provided that determine a vehicle configuration based on operator use case-specific performance impacts. A fleet analytics system is deployed as a lightweight, easy-to-use cloud-based service to a non-technical audience. Aspec...