ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,241, issued on April 15, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for non-intrusive response time evaluation of a component, unit or system of a vehicle" was invented by Hakan Olsson (Nodinge, Sweden) and Amanda Larsson (Boras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: repeatedly obtaining information in a control unit regarding a set operation value and an actual operation value of a component, unit, or system; repeatedly evaluating a difference between a set operation value and the actual operation value; if a difference exceeds a predefined minimum difference, measuring a response time from wh...