US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Aug. 25 for "System and method for handling combination vehicle brake torque factor using trailer wheel end air volume" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,399, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for handling combination vehicle brake torque factor using trailer wheel end air volume" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Jamestown, N.C.) and Robert Newton (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling brake factor of a combination vehicle (i.e., a towing vehicle and at least one trailer) includes sensing a condition indicative of air volume at trailer wheel ends, estimating an air volume for the trailer wheel ends, generating a predicted brake torque factor for the trailer(s) with a trained machine lea...