US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 19 for "Stochastic route planning for electric vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,624, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Stochastic route planning for electric vehicles" was invented by Chinya V. Ravishankar (Irvine, Calif.) and Payas Rajan (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stochastic electrical vehicle route planning associates weights with road segments, where the weights are probability distributions representing travel time along the segments. Weights representing energy consumption along the segments may be represented as a probability distribution or a deterministic value representing an expectation of a distributio...