US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Oct. 14 for "Fuel consumption prediction system and fuel consumption prediction method" (Japanese, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,336, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fuel consumption prediction system and fuel consumption prediction method" was invented by Geert Schoors (Tokyo) and David Hensher (Darlington, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel consumption prediction system predicts the fuel consumption of a vehicle comprising a fleet. The fuel consumption prediction system a driver-related coefficient to be applied to the driver-related explanatory variable and a vehicle-related coefficient to be applied to the vehicle-related explanatory variable based on the actual values of the driver-related explanatory variables ...