ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,906, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Mitigation of jack-knifing" was invented by Basar Ozkan (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system has processing circuitry to provide, in response to an indication that, for a vehicle combination comprising a tractor having a front axle, a first rear axle, and a second rear axle longitudinally further away from the front axle than the first rear axle is, and a trailer coupled to the tractor with a fifth-wheel coupling, a risk of jack-knifing is higher than a predefined threshold risk, an instruction to operate at least one actu...