ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,254, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling a rotational speed of an output shaft of a propulsion unit" was invented by Teodoro Bora (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Hans Bernler (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a rotational speed of an output shaft of a propulsion unit. The method includes determining a speed setpoint value, indicative of a rotational speed setpoint for the output shaft, and an actual speed value, indicative of an actual rotational speed of the output shaft, determining an acceleration value using an acceleration value determ...