ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,128, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of determining a preconditioning status of a vehicle component or system" was invented by Linus Nordholm (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jerker Lennevi (Lerum, Sweden), Simon Brunet (Landvetter, Sweden) and Robert Karlsson (Kallekarr, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a preconditioning status of a vehicle component or system.The method includes receiving a preconditioning status request for a vehicle component or system;determining the preconditioning status by a preconditioning model estimating the preconditioning status without...