US Patent Issued to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on April 22 for "Vehicle control system for optimizing energy consumption" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,142, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Vehicle control system for optimizing energy consumption" was invented by Linus Hallberg (Save, Sweden) and Victor Judez (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system for optimizing the energy consumption of a vehicle over the vehicle lifetime. The vehicle control system includes: a rechargeable electric battery; a mechanical component; and a processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle control system to: determine a battery wear va...