Patents by Inventor Servé Ploumen

Servé Ploumen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9631940
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to determining a route for efficient energy consumption. Data defining one or more routes and one or more consumption influencing parameters which influence a consumption of an energy source of the vehicle along the one or more routes may be received at a vehicle computer. Based on the route data and the consumption influencing parameters, at least one route which minimizes the consumption of the energy source for the vehicle may be determined. For the at least one route, one or more braking strategies may be determined for implementation by a vehicle operator in the vehicle in accordance with reducing the consumption of the vehicle energy source. The one or more braking strategies may be output in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Leonarda Wilhelmina Eikelenberg, Ulf Kirchner, Christoph Arndt, Servé Ploumen