US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Feb. 18 for "Control method, controller, and control program for controlling starting system, computer-readable medium carrying control program, starting system, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,102, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Control method, controller, and control program for controlling starting system, computer-readable medium carrying control program, starting system, and vehicle" was invented by Kotaro Maeda (Ageo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A starting system of an engine mounted on a vehicle includes an air reservoir; an air motor driven by compressed air supplied from the air reservoir; a battery; an electric motor driven by electric power from the battery; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit performs the step of controlling the air mo...