US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on April 21 for "Tyre wear rate estimation based on a dynamic tyre model" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,156, issued on April 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Tyre wear rate estimation based on a dynamic tyre model" was invented by Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden), Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden), Ulf Stenbratt (Vallda, Sweden), Adithya Arikere (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Chidambaram Subramanian (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling motion of a heavy-duty vehicle includes obtaining input data related to one or more tire parameters of a tire on the heavy-duty vehicle, estimating at least part of the one or more tire parameters based on the input data, configuring a tire model, wher...