ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,872, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for improving the availability of an energy storage or transformation system" was invented by Bassem Farag (Gothenburg, Sweden), Mark Hirche (Hisings Karra, Sweden) and Faisal Altaf (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving the availability of an energy storage or transformation, EST, system of a vehicle is described. The method comprises transferring the EST condition data from the first electronic unit by means of a second data transfer mode, receiving a fault or error regarding the EST condition data in rela...