US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on June 3 for "Method and system for acquiring information about an accessory of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,810, issued on June 3, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for acquiring information about an accessory of a vehicle" was invented by Wen Xu (Gothenburg, Sweden), Tommy Rosgardt (Lindome, Sweden), Anders Bjorklund (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ingmar Bengtsson (Lindome, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of acquiring information of an accessory connected to a vehicle. The method comprises, in a control unit of the vehicle, acquiring an accessory identifier from the accessory. The method further comprises transmitting the accessory identifier to a remote server comprising accessory informat...