US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on May 13 for "Method, vehicle and control unit for controlling brake distribution of service brakes" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,720, issued on May 13, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method, vehicle and control unit for controlling brake distribution of service brakes" was invented by Arne Andersson (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Mats Fagergren (Kungalv, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a control unit comprised in a vehicle for controlling a distribution of service brake activation between a first vehicle unit and a second vehicle unit of the vehicle is provided. The control unit determines a first periodic brake adjustment and a second periodic brake adjustment to be applied to an electric propulsion system and a ...