US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on June 2 for "Vehicle energy management system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,572, issued on June 2, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle energy management system" was invented by Harry Kirk Mathews Jr. (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and James D. Brooks (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy management system determines two or more fuel components that represent fuel consumption by a vehicle system completing a trip over one or more routes. A trip plan that designates operational settings of the vehicle system at one or more of different locations, different distances along the one or more routes, or different times is generated or modified. The trip plan is based...