US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on March 17 for "Robust vehicle speed over ground estimation using wheel speed sensors and inertial measurement units" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,857, issued on March 17, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Robust vehicle speed over ground estimation using wheel speed sensors and inertial measurement units" was invented by Mats Rydstrom (Billdal, Sweden), Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden), Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden) and Adithya Arikere (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle motion management, VMM, system for a heavy-duty vehicle has at least one wheel speed sensor outputs a wheel speed signal indicative of a rotation speed of a respective wheel on the vehicle, at least one inertial measurement unit, IMU, outputs an IMU signal in...