US Patent Issued to Scania on Sept. 8 for "Control device and method for estimating driving range for a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,871, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Control device and method for estimating driving range for a vehicle" was invented by Matthias Ussner (Sodertalje, Sweden), Jukka Hyttinen (Sodertalje, Sweden), Svante Johansson (Vallingby, Sweden), Antonius Kies (Sodertalje, Sweden) and Tony Sandberg (Strangnas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device and a method for estimating a driving range for a vehicle. The method comprises, based on available driving energy for the vehicle, estimating distance to empty taking into account an estimated variation in rolling resistance of the vehicle, wher...