US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Jan. 13 for "Route planner optimization for hybrid-electric vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,481, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Route planner optimization for hybrid-electric vehicles" was invented by Kyle Hollins Wray (Fremont, Calif.), Liam Pedersen (San Francisco), Richard Lui (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Route planning for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes obtaining respective engine activation actions for at least some road segments of a route between an origin and a destination by optimizing for at least one of a noise level or energy consumption of an engine of the HEV that is used to charge a...