ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,059, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control device and method for the predictive operation of an on-board power supply system" was invented by Andreas Heimrath (Emmering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for operating an on-board power supply system of a motor vehicle includes an input unit which is configured to determine operating parameters of the on-board power supply system of the motor vehicle and/or one or more environment parameters of the motor vehicle and to forward them to a processing unit of the control device. At least one environment parameter is a proba...