ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,953, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Emulation of petrol-based vehicle packages in electric vehicles" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.), Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for emulating a petrol-based vehicle package via an electrically powered vehicle. Processing circuitry is used to identify a vehicle profile of the electrically powered vehicle. The vehicle profile comprises at least one data structure that stores emulation capabilities of the electrically powered vehicle. ...