ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,937, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NL GIKEN Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Run efficiency measuring system, a vehicle and a certificate" was invented by Masahide Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A run efficiency measuring system measures both investment into a vehicle for run and actual run performance by the vehicle. The investment means cost of energy, toll, and budgeted time, while the actual run performance means travel distance and saved time. Run efficiency is calculated on the measurements separately by difference in driver, between toll run and free run, and in unit price of energy. The measurement is summarize...