US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on May 19 for "Method for monitoring the wear of a powertrain of an electric vehicle and electric vehicle implementing said method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,021, issued on May 19, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for monitoring the wear of a powertrain of an electric vehicle and electric vehicle implementing said method" was invented by Vincent Brolles (Saint Laurent de Mure, France) and Thomas Barillot (Mornant, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for monitoring the wear of a powertrain includes an analysis cycle that includes, in this order, preventing mechanical components from moving; rotating an electric motor in a first direction until a torque value delivered by the electric motor reaches a predetermined threshold, a first angular positio...