US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Dec. 16 for "Method of determining an allowable vehicle state space for an articulated vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,024, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of determining an allowable vehicle state space for an articulated vehicle" was invented by Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden), Peter Nilsson (Hovas, Sweden) and Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an allowable vehicle state space of an articulated vehicle for safely completing a maneuver is provided. The method includes monitoring a drivable area ahead of the articulated vehicle, predicting a potentially swept area ahead of the articulated vehicle, wherein the potentially swept area represents an area t...