ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,150, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hyliion Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas).
"Trailer-based energy capture and management" was invented by Thomas Joseph Healy (Austin, Texas) and Eric F. Weber (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A through-the-road (TTR) hybridization strategy is proposed to facilitate introducing hybrid electric vehicle technology in a significant portion of current and expected trucking fleets. In some cases, the technologies can be retrofitted onto an existing vehicle (e.g., a trailer, a tractor-trailer configuration, etc.). In some cases, the technologies can be built into new vehicles. In some cases, one vehicl...