US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on June 10 for "Physical model-guided machine learning framework for energy management of vehicles" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,322, issued on June 10, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Physical model-guided machine learning framework for energy management of vehicles" was invented by William Northrop (Minneapolis), Andrew Kotz (Minneapolis) and PengYue Wang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining when to increase an amount electrical energy available to a vehicle includes setting a parameter for a function describing a reference state of charge as a function of distance traveled, wherein the reference state of charge represents a state of charge of the vehicle at which the amount of electrical ...