US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle and method for controlling a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,503, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Lena Larsson (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Hakan Bjorklund (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprising an electrically driven wheel axle having at least two road wheels, an electric machine for providing propulsion power to the wheel axle, and a control unit configured to obtain positional data of the vehicle, the positional data containing information about the geographical location of the vehicle or the location of the vehicle relative to a reference point/area. Up...