US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on March 11 for "Payload monitoring device for a motor vehicle" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,864, issued on March 11, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Payload monitoring device for a motor vehicle" was invented by M Arvind (Tamilnadu, India) and K S Madhuchandra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring payload of a vehicle includes at least one wireless transmitter comprising a piezo-resistive pressure sensor, a transceiver and a battery unit, encapsulated in an insulating casing, the at least one wireless transmitter being configured to be attached to an axle beam of the vehicle and to emit a wireless signal in response to a mechanical strain of the axle beam, a wirel...