ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,697, issued on April 8, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for determining a mass property of a vehicle" was invented by Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden) and Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a mass property of a land-based vehicle for cargo transport. The method comprises registering one or more properties of a cargo unit entering the vehicle, wherein at least one of the properties is related to a mass of the cargo unit, estimating a location of the cargo unit in the vehicle, and determining at least one vehicle mass property of the vehicle based on the on...