ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,459, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for operating an electric vehicle, data processing system, electric vehicle, computer program product and computer-readable medium" was invented by Daniel Levin (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electric vehicle. The method includes receiving an information about an upcoming speed reduction (S1) and determining a release position or a release time at which a drive pedal of the electric vehicle is to be released, such that at a position corresponding to the speed reduction the electric vehicle travels at a s...