US Patent Issued to Scania on March 17 for "Control device and method for controlling traveling speed of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,821, issued on March 17, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Control device and method for controlling traveling speed of a vehicle" was invented by Mikael Alenius (Segeltorp, Sweden), Jonathan Adolfsson (Bandhagen, Sweden), Tomas Backlund (Gothenburg, Sweden), Gustav Lindberg (Stockholm) and David Karlsson (Linghem, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device and a method for controlling traveling speed of a vehicle for the purpose of maintaining a vehicle speed equal to or lower than a pre-set downhill speed. The method comprises simulating a vehicle speed profile for an upcoming road section if braking ...