US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on March 3 for "System and method for controlling a powertrain system of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,210, issued on March 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for controlling a powertrain system of a vehicle" was invented by Henrik Ryberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Markus Schellenberger (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for controls a powertrain system of a vehicle. The computer system has processing circuitry to operate the powertrain system in a freewheeling mode, in which an output shaft of an engine is non-rotating, and the engine is disconnected from one or more drive wheels. The processing circuitry determines an opportunity for the freewheeling mode by ...