US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Aug. 26 for "Method for classifying energy consumers in a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,021, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for classifying energy consumers in a vehicle" was invented by Mark Hirche (Hisings Karra, Sweden), Faisal Altaf (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Bassem Farag (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises providing preview information comprising at least one of a predicted road condition and a predicted road event; processing the preview information with an estimation model adapted to relate a risk level associated with a power unavailability for each one of the energy consumers to the at least one predicted road condition a...