US Patent Issued to Tesla on Aug. 11 for "Trip planning with energy constraint" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,381, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Trip planning with energy constraint" was invented by Andrew D. Baglino (San Francisco), Thorsten Hayer (Burlingame, Calif.), Brennan Boblett (San Francisco), Matthew Fox (Woody Creek, Colo.), Vineet H. Mehta (Mountain View, Calif.), Keijiro Ikebe (Cupertino, Calif.), Kevin Hsieh (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Craig B. Carlson (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jeffrey B. Straubel (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: determining, based, at least in part, on a predicted driver characteristic, a first energy-versus-distance measure for a planned drivin...