ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,446, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system of electric vehicle route planning for multi-service delivery and on-route energy replenishment" was invented by Ajay Narayanan (Bangalore, India), Prasant Kumar Misra (Bangalore, India), Ankush Ojha (Nodia, India) and Arunchandar Vasan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system of electric vehicle route planning for multi-service delivery and on-route energy replenishment is disclosed. Last mile delivery is a critical component of supply chains that impacts both customer experience and delivery cost. User ...