US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Feb. 10 for "Situation based under speed for a predictive cruise control" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,255, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Situation based under speed for a predictive cruise control" was invented by Anders Eriksson (Torslanda, Sweden) and Olof Lindgarde (Hovas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor device configured to: control a prime mover of the first vehicle to operate the first vehicle at a target set speed, determine a rear traffic condition indicating whether there is a risk of being overtaken by a second vehicle travelling behind the first vehicle, determine a topography of an upcoming road to be travelled by the first vehicl...