US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Oct. 20 for "Notification of a dwell time in a set of areas" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,493, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Notification of a dwell time in a set of areas" was invented by Per Sohlberg (Hovas, Sweden) and Daniel Tegnered (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor device configured to notify of an excessive dwell time is provided. The processor device is configured to obtain a dwell time for at least one area out of a set of areas. The set of areas, including the at least one area, may dynamically change over time based on a time spent within respective locations. The dwell time is indicative of an actual time sp...