US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on April 14 for "Computer-implemented method of controlling future braking capacity of a vehicle travelling along a road" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,242, issued on April 14, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Computer-implemented method of controlling future braking capacity of a vehicle travelling along a road" was invented by Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Martin Wilhelmsson (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of controlling future braking capacity of a vehicle travelling along a road, the vehicle having onboard batteries that are configured to absorb energy from regenerative braking. The method comprises acquiring prediction data indicative of how much braking capacity will be needed for the vehicle ...