ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,000, issued on May 20, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Eren Con (Chicago) and Michael Patrick Smith (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more processors that may determine one or more of an energy drag or a parasitic energy loss for upcoming planned travel of a vehicle along one or more routes based on externality information. The one or more processors may determine the one or more of the energy drag or the parasitic energy loss for each of plural, different route locations along the one or more routes and may change one or more asp...