ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,339, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Heavy-duty vehicle" was invented by Oscar Stjernberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Martin Wilhelmsson (Torslanda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy-duty vehicle has a first set of metallic brakes and a second set of non-metallic brakes having lower weight than the metallic brakes. A processor device is configured to acquire prediction data indicative of an upcoming brake event that is expected to occur along a road on which the vehicle is travelling; determine, based on the prediction data, an expected value of kinetic energy that will be absorbed...