ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,295, issued on March 25, was assigned to AVL Test Systems Inc. (Plymouth, Mich.) and AVL Emissions Test Systems GmbH (Neuss, Germany).

"System and method for controlling an electronic display to guide a driver when executing distance-based drive cycles" was invented by Eugene Mondrusov (Livonia, Mich.), Mark T. Oliver (Brighton, Mich.), Dmitry Romanovich (Minsk, Belarus), Dzmitry Markavets (Minsk, Belarus) and Alexander Abramov (Minsk, Belarus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a visual aid to guide a driver when executing a test cycle includes controlling an electronic display to display a graph including a targe...