ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,368, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Braking arrangement for heavy duty vehicles" was invented by Ulf Stenbratt (Vallda, Sweden), Leo Laine (Harryda Vastra Gotaland, Sweden) and Hamid Yhr (Grabo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking arrangement for decelerating a heavy duty vehicle, the arrangement including a control unit, at least one electric machine arranged for regenerative braking, an electrical energy absorption device, an eddy current braking device, and a power distribution network arranged to connect the electric machine to the energy absorption device and to the eddy cur...