US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Feb. 18 for "Method for determining a derating factor, a control unit, a power system and a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,105, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for determining a derating factor, a control unit, a power system and a vehicle" was invented by Linus Nordholm (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Simon Berntsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a derating factor for a rechargeable energy storage system. The derating factor is indicative of the rate at which an electrical load, imparted on said rechargeable energy storage system, is reduced, said rechargeable energy storage system being associated with at least a first load threshold and at least a second load thr...