US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on May 19 for "Vehicle having a driving cab equipped with a shading device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,992, issued on May 19, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle having a driving cab equipped with a shading device" was invented by Renaud Laperriere (Lyons, France) and Philemon Chavrier (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle comprises a shading device arranged inside the driving cab. The shading device comprises a main curtain and a first side curtain, which are separate from each other but carried by common shaft, rotatable relative to a chassis, and which are each kinematically linked to the shaft. The vehicle further comprises a camera monitoring system capturing images outside the driv...