ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,418, issued on May 27, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Method for predicting a velocity profile of a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Grubwinkler (Munich), Hans Bauer (Munich) and Friedrich Graf (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for operating a vehicle based on a future speed curve along a predetermined travel route up to a specific preview horizon. The method may include: generating a prediction model; supplying data to the model; using an algorithm to generate a predicted speed profile; selecting a datum for the second input data group depending on a situati...