US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Aug. 25 for "System and method for controlling a powertrain system of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,440, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for controlling a powertrain system of a vehicle" was invented by Markus Schellenberger (Gothenburg, Sweden), Henrik Ryberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Wilhelm Johannesson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system controls a powertrain system of a vehicle. The computer system has processing circuitry configured to selectively operate the powertrain system in a number of operational modes, comprising at least a freewheeling mode, in which an output shaft of the engine is non-rotating, and the engine is disconnecte...