US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Aug. 11 for "Distributed and generic control allocation for multi-unit vehicle combinations" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,250, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Distributed and generic control allocation for multi-unit vehicle combinations" was invented by Maliheh Sadeghi Kati (Ojersjo, Sweden), Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden), Jonas Fredriksson (Molndal, Sweden) and Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distributed control allocation in a vehicle combination including multiple vehicle units is provided, in which a master control allocator solves a combination-specific control allocation problem to perform control allocation on a combination level, and each of a plurality of s...