ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,918, issued on May 27, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Methods and systems for monitoring vehicle load distribution" was invented by Ramachandran Sandrasekaran (Karnataka, India), Kent Augustsson (Bollebygd, Sweden) and Marcel Palmgren (Torslanda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit arranged to monitor a load distribution of a vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, the control unit comprising an interface arranged to receive a plurality of load values associated with one or more vehicle axles and/or one or more vehicle wheels from a plurality of load sensors arranged on the vehicle, wherein t...