ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,170, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ALTRA S.P.A. (Genoa, Italy).

"Method and system for assisting in the electric energy management of a vehicle of electric or hybrid type, vehicle, and software program" was invented by Alessio Canepa (Genoa, Italy), Marco Aimo Boot (Genoa, Italy), Alessandro Bernardini (Genoa, Italy), Paolo Gastaldo (Genoa, Italy) and Edoardo Ragusa (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for assisting in the management of the electric energy of an electric or hybrid vehicle, comprising the steps of: providing a graph including a plurality of nodes belonging to one or more branches of the graph; iter...