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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:
Aug. 19, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);

Inventors:

Aaron Craig Mellinger, San Diego, CA (US);

Henry Todd Young, Erie, PA (US);

Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler, Erie, PA (US);

Jeffrey John Wolff, Lawrence Park, PA (US);

Lindsay Short, Erie, PA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 30/188 (2012.01); B60W 40/076 (2012.01); B60W 40/10 (2012.01); B60W 40/13 (2012.01); B60W 50/12 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 30/188 (2013.01); B60W 40/076 (2013.01); B60W 40/1005 (2013.01); B60W 40/13 (2013.01); B60W 50/12 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2510/242 (2013.01); B60W 2530/10 (2013.01); B60W 2530/16 (2013.01); B60W 2530/18 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02);
Abstract

A monitoring system and method determine a consumption metric representative of one or more of an amount of fuel consumed or an amount of energy consumed by a vehicle during travel over a route. The consumption metric is independent of one or more of vehicle load or elevation change over the route. The system and method optionally can determine a route condition metric representative of a condition of a route traveled upon by a vehicle. The route condition metric is based on a comparison between an actual grade of the route at one or more locations along the route and an estimated grade of the route at the one or more locations.


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