US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Jan. 13 for "System and method for controlling eco mode override in a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,217, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for controlling eco mode override in a vehicle" was invented by Arnaud Brun (Lyons, France), Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France) and Fanette Sevenier (Courzieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer system having a processing circuitry configured to detect, using sensors of a host vehicle, a high acceleration traffic situation involving a secondary vehicle. The processing circuitry is configured to estimate a required power to handle the high acceleration traffic situation clear of the secondary vehicle within a timefr...