ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,346, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Device and method for increasing the range of an electric vehicle" was invented by Andreas Ertlmeier (Wolnzach, Germany) and Julian Wiesmeier (Deisenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for increasing the range of an electric vehicle. A control unit estimates a remaining range of the high-voltage battery based on a state-of-charge of the high-voltage battery. The remaining range is displayed on a display. If the control unit determines, during driving in the normal mode, that the remaining range results from an estimation error ...