ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,688, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for identifying vehicle performance" was invented by Rikard Vinge (Hisings Backa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying vehicle performance, including maintaining a database with clustered reference data based on first vehicle data, in which each cluster in the clustered reference data is associated with a cluster significant parameter being a cluster threshold indicative of the association of the corresponding cluster; collecting second vehicle data; identifying the second vehicle data with regards to the clusters of th...