ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,237, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method and control unit for managing loading and/or offloading of a vehicle" was invented by Per Sohlberg (Hovas, Sweden) and Stefan Pettersson (Eskilstuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit manage loading and/or offloading of a vehicle. The control unit obtains information indicating one or more of: which vehicle that is to be loaded and/or offloaded, a target time for vehicle departure and a vehicle capacity. The control unit initiates loading and/or offloading of goods using assets. The control unit receives real-time information abou...