ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,081, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Method and control device for controlling regenerative braking in a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Szilassy (Stockholm), Martin Berglund (Vagnharad, Sweden), Magnus Carlgren (Vagnharad, Sweden), Daniel Stahl (Enkoping, Sweden) and Alexander Stamp (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device and a method for controlling a vehicle is provided. The vehicle comprises an energy storage device, an electric motor, and at least one service brake configured to brake a vehicle wheel. The method comprises, in case it is predicted that the energy s...