ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,312, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EMBOTECH AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Real-time, energy-efficient computations of optimal road vehicle velocity profiles" was invented by Sven Van Koutrik (Zurich, Switzerland), Joachim Ferreau (Maur, Switzerland), Stefano Longo (Zurich, Switzerland) and Alexander Domahidi (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is notably directed to a computer-implemented method for controlling a speed of a vehicle given energy-related quantities that pertain to moving the vehicle. Each of said energy-related quantities is being referred to as an energy expense in the following. The me...