US Patent Issued to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 24 for "Vehicle control system, method and a computer program product for energy efficient driving" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,692, issued on June 24, was assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Vehicle control system, method and a computer program product for energy efficient driving" was invented by Jonathan Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Pardis Shariatzadeh (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system for energy efficient driving includes a processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle control system to: determine that the vehicle is approaching a stop point; determine if the vehicle needs to stop at the stop point; determine the presence of at least a first other...