US Patent Issued to The Heil on July 15 for "Vehicle body fuel consumption determination based on sensor data" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,952, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Vehicle body fuel consumption determination based on sensor data" was invented by Richard Buteau (Austin, Texas), Thomas Leon Wilding (Willard, Utah), Albert Xiaoxia Jiang (Chattanooga, Tenn.), John Forrest Smith (Fort Payne, Ala.), Michael Dean Geary (Toronto) and Brian Huston Ham (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for determining an amount of fuel that is consumed by the body components of a vehicle, based at least partly on sensor data describing the operations of the body components and/or the location of the vehicle...