US Patent Issued to Scania on June 16 for "Method and control arrangement for controlling a speed of a vehicle performing a pulse and glide operation" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,698, issued on June 16, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Method and control arrangement for controlling a speed of a vehicle performing a pulse and glide operation" was invented by Oliver Somos (Hagersten, Sweden), Frank Mohr (Varmdo, Sweden), David Karlsson (Linghem, Sweden) and Mikael Alenius (Segeltorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling a speed of a vehicle using a Pulse and Glide (PnG) operation whereby the speed of the vehicle is controlled about a reference speed. The PnG operation comprises a pulse-phase during which the speed of the vehicle is increased to a first sp...