ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,749, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Energy calculating apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Nanjo (Kariya, Japan) and Noriaki Ikemoto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy consumption predicting apparatus stores reference energy defined by an amount of energy required by a vehicle to move on a selected route and provides actual energy defined by an amount of energy actually used by a target vehicle. The apparatus includes a correcting unit which calculates a deviation of the actual energy from the reference energy and derives a correlation between amounts of energy actually consumed ...