US Patent Issued to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT on Oct. 27 for "Autonomous dump vehicle configured to selectively steer using front and/or rear wheels" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,030, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

"Autonomous dump vehicle configured to selectively steer using front and/or rear wheels" was invented by Gordon Ekman (Moheda, Sweden), Kim Orkenrud (Vaxjo, Sweden) and Roland Kvist (Braas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous dump vehicle including a first set of steerable wheels, a second set of steerable wheels, and a load body. The autonomous dump vehicle is configured to steer using both the first set of steerable wheels and the second set of steerable wheels up to a speed threshold, and steer using either the first set o...