ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,126, issued on July 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Approaches for diagnostics of NOx sensor(s)" was invented by Martin Wilhelmsson (Torslanda, Sweden), Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden), Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Roland Kvist (Braas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for diagnostics of NOx sensor(s) of a vehicle. The method comprises-while the electric motor(s) are not driven by the ICE-controlling (by processing circuitry of a computer system) the ICE to operate according to a predefined operational mode, wherein the predefined operational mode...