US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on May 12 for "Trailer connection status determination and sharing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,649, issued on May 12, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Trailer connection status determination and sharing" was invented by Lionel Farres (Heyrieux, France) and Christophe Long (Brindas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods carried out in a truck (TW) configured to be coupled to a trailer (TR), wherein a trailer connection status (CST) is determined by a pneumatic line test performed on a test pneumatic line arranged to pneumatically couple the trailer to the truck, the method comprising determining a line test circumstantial criterion, such criterion allowing or not a pneumatic line test ...