US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Nov. 3 for "Method of operating a vehicle feeding material to a road finishing machine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,161, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of operating a vehicle feeding material to a road finishing machine" was invented by Philemon Chavrier (Lyons, France), Renaud Laperriere (Lyons, France) and Olivier Poussin (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a vehicle feeding material to a road finishing machine. The vehicle includes a vehicle retarding system controllable to retard the vehicle, and processing circuitry coupled to the vehicle retarding system. The method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, a slope inclination of a downward sloping roa...