ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,653, issued on June 17, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for validating a model associated with vehicle dynamics" was invented by Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden), Emil Klintberg (Torslanda, Sweden) and Peter Nilsson (Hovas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating a model of vehicle dynamics for use in autonomous driving. The method comprising setting a wheel slip limit on an operation of at least one vehicle torque device, obtaining a model of vehicle dynamics based on the set wheel slip limit, and validating the model of vehicle dynamics based on the set wheel slip limit."

The patent...