ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,107, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Range prediction for vehicles" was invented by Rafael Basso (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is configured to receive a start position and a planned destination position for an electric vehicle of a vehicle type, estimate energy consumption and variance for at least one route between the start position and the destination position for the vehicle type, based on reference energy consumption vehicle data collected from secondary vehicles, calculate a confidence interval for the estimated energy consumption and variance a...