US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on April 21 for "System and method for handling braking of combination vehicle including updating of brake pedal position deceleration map" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,139, issued on April 21, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for handling braking of combination vehicle including updating of brake pedal position deceleration map" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Jamestown, N.C.) and Gabriel Einstoss (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling braking of a combination vehicle (i.e., a towing vehicle and at least one trailer) includes vehicle-specific dynamic updating and implementation of a brake pedal position deceleration map, including utilization of brake pedal position information and vehicle motion information in conj...