US Patent Issued to Geotab on April 8 for "Methods for range estimation in battery powered vehicles" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,668, issued on April 8, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Methods for range estimation in battery powered vehicles" was invented by Mark William Girard (Kitchener, Canada) and Nadia Sophia Stefopulos (Tiny, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and models for range estimation and analysis in battery powered vehicles are described. Energy consumption over vehicle trips is collected, to evaluate weighting factors for a weighted sum. The weighted sum is evaluated based on determined weighting factors and expected trip data, to determine an energy consumption of a trip or trips of a vehicle. Dete...