US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 28 for "Management systems for evaluation and continuous improvement of workflows involving heavy-duty vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,353, issued on July 28, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Management systems for evaluation and continuous improvement of workflows involving heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Bo Stromberg (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Per Sohlberg (Hovas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production asset monitoring system, for monitoring current operating states of one or more production assets, associates a respective state machine which each asset in the one or more production assets, where each state machine implements a plurality of operating states, out of which operating states at least one state is categorized...