ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,829, issued on May 13, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Control unit and a method for controlling a wheel on a vehicle" was invented by Adithya Arikere (Gothenburg, Sweden), Niklas Frojd (Molnlycke, Sweden), Leo Laine (Harryda, Sweden), Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden) and Sidhant Ray (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control unit for controlling torque applied to a vehicle wheel provided with a tyre, wherein the control unit comprises or is operatively connected to a data storage, which data storage has a stored tyre model for the tyre, wherein, in the tyre model, l...