US Patent Issued to Garrett Transportation I on June 17 for "Hierarchical optimal controller for predictive power split" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,626, issued on June 17, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Hierarchical optimal controller for predictive power split" was invented by Kamil Dolinsky (Prague) and Matej Pcolka (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for hybrid vehicle control. A high-level controller and a low-level controller are provided. The high-level controller uses preview information and a model of the low-level controller to calculate optimized tuning parameters for the low-level controller. The low-level controller uses driver inputs and current operating states to calculate optimized torque split for the hy...