US Patent Issued to Delphi Technologies IP on Feb. 4 for "System and method for estimating a remaining energy range of a vehicle and reducing driver range anxiety" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,551, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Delphi Technologies IP Ltd. (St. Michael, Barbados).

"System and method for estimating a remaining energy range of a vehicle and reducing driver range anxiety" was invented by Peter M. Olin (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Li Tang (Troy, Mich.) and Harry Husted (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a remaining range of a vehicle battery charge includes identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a selected route, determining a vehicle energy consumption profile for a vehicle, and determining a current state of charge of a vehicle battery of the vehicle. Th...