ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,079, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Location of vehicle tracking point" was invented by Yangyan Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Timothy Gordon (Lincoln, Great Britain) and Shammi Rahman (Lincoln, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting a location of a tracking point for a vehicle unit of a vehicle includes dynamically adapting the location of the tracking point based on a vehicle speed. In some examples, the location of the tracking point for a relatively high speed is located (along the vehicle unit) in front of the location of the tracking point for a relatively low s...