ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,251, issued on March 25, was assigned to BorgWarner US Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"System and method for controlling vehicle propulsion" was invented by Karim Aggoune (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Gerard W. Malaczynski (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Claude P. Poull (Houdemont, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating energy consumption of a vehicle includes receiving, from a remotely located computing device, standardized energy consumption data corresponding to at least one other vehicle, the standardized energy consumption data corresponding to energy consumption of the at least one other vehicle as a funct...