US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Information processing apparatus for generating vehicle operation plans based on electrical energy consumption" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,859, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus for generating vehicle operation plans based on electrical energy consumption" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan), Ibuki Shimada (Miyoshi, Japan) and Toshihiro Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total el...