ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,834, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Energy estimation apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Nanjo (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy estimation apparatus includes a probability setting unit, a vehicle speed pattern estimation unit, a traveling load estimation unit, and an energy estimation unit. The probability setting unit sets a vehicle speed probability that is a probability of a vehicle reaching a certain vehicle speed on a traveling route that is specified by traveling route information. The vehicle speed pattern estimation unit estimates a vehicle speed variation pattern of th...