ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,677, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Managing a fleet of vehicles" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling operation of a fleet of vehicles comprising a plurality of vehicles is provided. The method acquires first sensor data from a plurality of first sensors of a first vehicle, and second sensor data from a plurality of second sensors of a second vehicle; processes the first sensor data using a first vehicle dynamics model to estimate at least one first vehicle operating cost parameter value related to operation of ...