US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Method for optimising the energy consumption of a motor vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,665, issued on July 7, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for optimising the energy consumption of a motor vehicle" was invented by Mariano Sans (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy consumption of a motor vehicle comprising a battery (30), an internal combustion engine (M), an electric machine (ME), a plurality of devices, each characterized by at least one state variable, and a computer (40) capable of controlling the internal combustion engine (M) and the electric machine (ME), said method being notable in that it comprises ...