US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Nov. 11 for "Tractor, commercial vehicle, range of tractors and method for configuring a tractor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,497, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Tractor, commercial vehicle, range of tractors and method for configuring a tractor" was invented by Sanal Surendran (Karnataka, India) and Bharath Kumar A (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tractor of a commercial vehicle comprising lateral fairings each having a fixed portion attached to a chassis, a movable portion, and a mounting arrangement to vary a fairing height of the movable portion in accordance with a fifth-wheel height of a fifth-wheel coupling, wherein the mounting arrangement is chosen between a discontinuous mounting arran...