US Patent Issued to FCA US on Jan. 13 for "Drive cycle prediction and efficient control of hybrid electric vehicles" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,196, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Drive cycle prediction and efficient control of hybrid electric vehicles" was invented by Michael J Fisher (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predictive control techniques for an electrified powertrain of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) include maintaining a database of past measured operational parameters of an electrified powertrain during a plurality of past drive cycles of the HEV, monitoring and comparing measured operational parameters of the electrified powertrain during a current drive cycle of the HEV to the past measured operational para...