US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on April 15 for "Energy management system for a motor vehicle and method for managing energy in a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,422, issued on April 15, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Energy management system for a motor vehicle and method for managing energy in a motor vehicle" was invented by Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France) and Raphael Ribero (Millery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an energy management system for a motor vehicle, comprising a monitoring device adapted to monitor a position and/or a movement of a driver inside the motor vehicle, a driver's intention determination device adapted to determine the intention of the driver to use predetermined energy consuming devices of the motor vehicle ba...