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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);

Inventors:

Kyle Hollins Wray, Mountain View, CA (US);

David Ilstrup, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Liam Pedersen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Richard Lui, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Christopher Ostafew, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 20/14 (2016.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01S 19/42 (2010.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 20/14 (2016.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G01C 21/3807 (2020.08); G01S 19/42 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 30/18127 (2013.01); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01); B60W 2540/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/12 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02);
Abstract

Activating an engine of a HEV to charge a battery includes obtaining a first GPS trace from a first trip of the HEV along a first route, where the first GPS trace includes first trace metadata; obtaining a second GPS trace from a second trip, where the second GPS trace includes second trace metadata; adding, to a navigation map, an aggregation of the first trace metadata and the second trace metadata for edges of the navigation map; using the navigation map to obtain an activation action of the engine, where the activation action is selected from a set that includes a first activation action of turning the engine on and a second activation action of turning the engine off; and activating the engine according to the activation action, where activating the engine using the first activation action causes the engine to turn on to charge the battery of the HEV.


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