US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for controlling a heavy commercial vehicle in uphill conditions" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,201, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for controlling a heavy commercial vehicle in uphill conditions" was invented by Esteban Gelso (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a vehicle with a plurality of motion actuators comprises: determining a longitudinal inclination and speed of the vehicle; selecting an uphill drive mode if the longitudinal inclination is greater than an inclination threshold and the absolute speed is less than a speed threshold, and otherwise selecting a regular drive mode; obtain...