ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,835, issued on March 24, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Device and method for controlling flooding of at least part of an energy storage space" was invented by Sondre Landvik (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Edward Jobson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a control unit for controlling flooding of at least part of an energy storage space. The energy storage space comprises at least one Energy Storage System, ESS. The control unit detects that a critical condition associated with the at least one ESS is present. When the critical condition has been detected, the control unit in...