ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,986, issued on April 29, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Goteborg., Sweden).
"Method for estimating tyre normal force" was invented by Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden), Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden) and Bengt Jacobson (Molnlycke, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a tyre normal force range (Fz,min, Fz,max) of a tyre force (Fz) acting on a vehicle (100), the method comprising; obtaining (S1) suspension data (310) associated with a suspension system of the vehicle (100); obtaining (S2) inertial measurement unit, IMU, data (320) associated with the vehicle (100); estimating (S3), by a suspension-based estimat...