US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Aug. 12 for "Emergency braking of a vehicle using compound parking and service braking" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,340, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Emergency braking of a vehicle using compound parking and service braking" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of brake management in a heavy vehicle is provided, and includes, in response to determining that a request for emergency braking is imminent, increasing an air pressure of e.g., a service brake system of the vehicle and decreasing an air pressure of e.g., a parking brake system of the vehicle. The method further includes, in response to actually receiving the request for emergency br...