ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,407, issued on May 5, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for controlling a heavy-duty vehicle" was invented by Ramadan Salif (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Viktor Lagnert (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a powertrain system of a heavy-duty vehicle, the powertrain system having at least one differential arrangement for receiving torque from a propulsion unit of the powertrain system and delivering at least a part of the torque to a set of first and second wheels, the method being implemented by a control unit, the method comprising determining a split-friction condition i...