US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Aug. 25 for "Handling a vehicle in risk of a rear-end collision" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,433, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Handling a vehicle in risk of a rear-end collision" was invented by Esteban Gelso (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Maliheh Sadeghi Kati (Ojersjo, Sweden) and Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system has processing circuitry to handle a first vehicle. The first vehicle is travelling in a longitudinal travel direction on a road. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain from a sensor, sensor data of a motion of a second vehicle travelling towards the first vehicle in the longitudinal travel direction, and based on the...