US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Feb. 17 for "Method and device for controlling the range of a battery-operated motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,729, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and device for controlling the range of a battery-operated motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Struhs (Braunschweig, Germany), Markus Neumann (Vordorf, Germany), Wjatscheslaw Krieger (Berlin), Ann-Kathrin Eisner (Isenbuttel, Germany) and Christian Wurm (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling the range of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the identification of a navigation destination. The method also comprises the identification of a target residual range to be achieved at the naviga...