US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on May 20 for "System and method for use in connection with a wheel torque generating component in a heavy-duty vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,446, issued on May 20, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for use in connection with a wheel torque generating component in a heavy-duty vehicle" was invented by Tove Audhav (Landvetter, Sweden), Mats Fagergren (Kungalv, Sweden), Fredrik Rahm (Horby, Sweden) and Arne Andersson (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use in connection with a wheel torque generating component in a heavy-duty vehicle, comprising a fluid conduit, a flow creating device configured to provide a pressurized air flow through the fluid conduit, a flow directing device enabling the pressurized air ...