ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,107, issued on May 6, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling a powertrain of an electric vehicle, data processing device, computer program, computer-readable medium, and powertrain" was invented by Anand Ganesan (Gothenburg, Sweden), Avanish Raj (Gothenburg, Sweden), Dhananjay Yadav (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Shemsedin Nursebo Salih (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a powertrain of an electric vehicle. The method includes receiving a torque demand signal. Thereafter, a future power loss within the powertrain is estimated as a function of a torque distribut...