ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,250, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Cabin filter state handler" was invented by Anders Lofvendahl (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Andre Portugal (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing cabin filter state data relating to a state of a cabin filter of a vehicle, including: providing gas concentration data relating to a gas concentration of an output flow of at least one cabin filter of the vehicle; and providing cabin filter state data based on the gas concentration data."
The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/240,525....