US Patent Issued to Scania on March 4 for "Control device, method, computer program and computer readable medium for enabling power steering of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,539, issued on March 4, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Control device, method, computer program and computer readable medium for enabling power steering of a vehicle" was invented by Jonas Udd (Stockholm) and Joachim Hagstrom (Jarna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device and a method for enabling power steering of a vehicle in case of unintentional shutdown of a combustion engine of the vehicle are provided. The vehicle comprises, in addition to the combustion engine, a starter configured to crank the combustion engine and a hydraulic power steering system comprising a hydraulic pump configured t...