ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,522, issued on July 14, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for starting a power system" was invented by Anders Mohlin (Kungsbacka, Sweden) and Malin Ehleskog (Hisings Backa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system configured to receive temperature information (TI) indicative of an ambient air temperature of a power system comprising an internal combustion engine. The computer system is further configured to in response to determining that the TI indicates the ambient air temperature of the power system being equal to or below a threshold temperature, issue information to the power system t...