ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,563, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Computer implemented method for controlling energy or power utilization of a battery pack" was invented by Tove Audhav (Landvetter, Sweden), Arne Andersson (Molnlycke, Sweden), Fredrik Blomgren (Hisings Karra, Sweden) and Staffan Luong (Boras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for controlling energy or power utilization of a battery pack in a rechargeable energy storage system is described. The battery pack is configured to be operated within an operating window defined by its state-of-charge, SOC, according to normal ...