US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Dec. 16 for "System and method for determining a length of a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,054, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for determining a length of a vehicle" was invented by Philippe Bon (St Bonnet de Mure, France) and Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor configured to determine that a first articulation angle between a first frame and a second frame of an articulated vehicle is above a first angle threshold; determine a first vehicle length based on the first articulation angle and a first distance from a first distance determination device to a first rear portion of the second frame on a ...