US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Feb. 3 for "System and method for probing properties of a trailer towed by a towing vehicle in a heavy-duty vehicle combination" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,840, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for probing properties of a trailer towed by a towing vehicle in a heavy-duty vehicle combination" was invented by Timothy Gordon (Lincoln, Great Britain) and Yangyan Gao (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for probing properties of a trailer towed by a towing vehicle in a heavy-duty vehicle combination. The system comprises at least one torque generating component for inducing movements of the trailer relative to a yaw axis of the trailer; a control unit configured to, during driving of the vehicle combination, ac...