ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,889, issued on March 17, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for use in an area trafficked by a plurality of vehicles" was invented by Anjan Yvk (Bangalore, India) and Madhuchandra K S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a defined area trafficked by a plurality of vehicles comprising a detection system for detecting foreign objects located between a pair of tires of the vehicle, the method comprising receiving information from at least one vehicle relating to the detection of a foreign object by the detection system, and to a geographic position of the vehicle at a time of...