ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,085, issued on March 18, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle air management system" was invented by Hugo Bebon (Saint-Priest, France) and Jean-Sebastien Carle (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air management system is provided. The vehicle air management system comprises an air tank and a boost air tank. Based on a signal indicative of an air consumption level of at least one air consumer, a control unit is configured to control the vehicle air management system to deliver pressurized air from the boost air tank to be supplied to an air compressor."

The patent was filed on Dec. 9, ...