US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Nov. 3 for "Distributed control for vehicle combinations" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,225, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Distributed control for vehicle combinations" was invented by Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden), Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden) and Simon Schoutissen (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for a vehicle combination is disclosed. The computer system has a first controller implemented in a first unit of the vehicle combination. The first controller, in a first mode of operation, determines a requested unit control input for one or more units of the vehicle combination based on a reference input representing a requested movement ...