US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Jan. 27 for "Method for controlling charging of a battery in a vehicle" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,988, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling charging of a battery in a vehicle" was invented by Ulf Danielsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Virginie Harth (St Didier de Formans, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor device configured to determine altitude data of at least one of a charging location and a vehicle located at the charging location, determine topography in a predetermined area around the charging location, determine a maximum altitude drop of the topography in the predetermined area relative to the determined altitude data, i...