ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,659, issued on May 12, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Computer system and a computer-implemented method of controlling the temperature of a selective catalytic reduction system" was invented by Martin Wilhelmsson (Torslanda, Sweden), Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Anders Eriksson (Torslanda, Sweden) and Erik Jonsson Holm (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising processing circuitry configured to obtain topographic data containing information about the topography of the road along which a heavy-duty vehicle is currently travelling, the topographic data including i...