ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,915, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of controlling an electric power source" was invented by Fredrik Rahm (Horby, Sweden) and Fredrik Larsson (Vellinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an electric power system, the method comprising determining, by a processor device of a computer system, a change in power consumption of a power consumer from a first power level to a second power level; and controlling, in response to determining the change in power consumption, an energy dissipater to receive electric power from an electric power source at a third powe...