US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Nov. 3 for "Coupling rotating wheels to engine for engine restart" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,699, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Coupling rotating wheels to engine for engine restart" was invented by Magnus Blanckenfiell (Gothenburg, Sweden), Henrik Ryberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Markus Schellenberger (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive an engine restart request for restarting an engine of a vehicle while the vehicle is moving; receive, directly from the engine, a signal encoding a real-time rotational speed of the engine; and control an actuator to gradually engage a clutch of a transmission co...