US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on April 14 for "Computer system and method for controlling a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,357, issued on April 14, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Computer system and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Martin Wilhelmsson (Torslanda, Sweden), Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anders Eriksson (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system including processing circuitry configured to control a vehicle, the processing circuitry being configured to: determine that an expected travelling route of the vehicle includes a downhill road segment followed by an uphill road segment; predict an engine exhaust condition of an engine of the vehicle, wherein the engine ...