ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,271, issued on June 10, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for forming a vehicle combination" was invented by Hamid Yhr (Grabo, Sweden) and Par Blomqvist (Torslanda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for selecting and identifying a powered dolly vehicle for forming a vehicle combination with a primary vehicle and one or more trailers. The method includes receiving a request from a primary vehicle to select a powered dolly vehicle among a group of powered dolly vehicles based at least in part on a mission-characteristic for a vehicle combination; evaluating th...