US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 29 for "Vehicle allocation management method and vehicle allocation management device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,173, issued on April 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle allocation management method and vehicle allocation management device" was invented by Hironori Oobayashi (Kariya, Japan) and Akihiro Imura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle allocation management method, which is executed by a computer to manage an allocation of service vehicles used in a mobility service to a user, includes instructions to be executed by at least one processor. The instructions include: estimating an energy consumption generated in response to a service provision to the user; estimating a performance deterioration of ...