ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,362, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Adapting operation to preceding vehicles" was invented by Johan Bjernetun (Molnlycke, Sweden), Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Martin Wilhelmsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by a processor device of a computer system, from at least one data acquisition device of a prime vehicle, measurement data of each of at least two preceding vehicles preceding the prime vehicle; determining, by the processor device, a performance consistency of each of the at least two preceding vehic...