ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,723, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Noise management in electric heavy vehicles" was invented by Arne Andersson (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Mats Fagergren (Kungalv, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of noise management in an electric heavy vehicle, including determining a noise threshold and corresponding reduced target speed for a cooling fan providing cooling of a propulsion/braking system of the vehicle, obtaining look-ahead data pertinent to an upcoming section of a road, and to determine a speed profile for the vehicle such that a cooling requirement of the propulsion/braking s...