US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on May 20 for "Method for predicting the energy requirements of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,405, issued on May 20, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for predicting the energy requirements of a motor vehicle" was invented by Daniel Brauneis (Passau, Germany), Julian Muller (Deckenpfronn, Germany), Roland Lindbuchl (Boblingen, Germany) and Simone Konig (Ellwangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The energy requirement of a motor vehicle is predicted using an artificial functional model generated or trained by an artificial intelligence of a motor vehicle model. The energy requirement of a motor vehicle is predicted using a data recorder arranged on a data bus of the motor vehicle reco...