US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 14 for "Central network unit and method therein for enabling internet access to an on-board third party application" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,041, issued on July 14, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Central network unit and method therein for enabling internet access to an on-board third party application" was invented by Joshua Shire (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Bo Stromberg (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central network unit and method therein for enabling internet access to an third-party application executed in an operating system on-board a vehicle in a vehicle communications network is described. It describes obtaining information indicating on-board internet usage by the third-party application per assigned operating sy...