US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Aug. 11 for "Stochastic model predictive control for electric vehicles thermal management" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,226, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Stochastic model predictive control for electric vehicles thermal management" was invented by Mohammad Reza Amini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Quihao Hu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ilya Kolmanovsky (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jing Sun (Superior Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stochastic Model Predictive Control approach is developed to efficiently optimize the thermal management of electric vehicles and accommodate scenarios with multiple routes. To account for the uncertainties, the cost function is constructed to minimize the expected ...