US Patent Issued to Scania on July 15 for "Method and control arrangement for changing an activation state for a power take-off" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,486, issued on July 15, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Method and control arrangement for changing an activation state for a power take-off" was invented by Mikael Lindberg (Huddinge, Sweden) and Linus Stiernstedt (Tullinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for changing an activation state of a power take-off (PTO) in a vehicle, where the activation state corresponds to either an activated state, where the PTO transfers a torque between the vehicle's power source for propelling the vehicle and an auxiliary load, or a deactivated state, where no torque is transferred by the PTO between t...