ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,361, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).
"Control arrangement and method for controlling vehicle speed" was invented by Marcus Engman (Tullinge, Sweden), Susanna Jacobsson (Huddinge, Sweden) and Jonas Udd (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control arrangement and a method for controlling vehicle speed of a vehicle using a cruise control system are provided. The vehicle comprises a power take-off connected to a powertrain of the vehicle. The method comprises a step of, in response to a determination that the power take-off is subjected to a load, predicting future braking torque resulting fro...