ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,966, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Controlling EATS temperature" was invented by Anders Eriksson (Torslanda, Sweden) and Erik Jonsson Holm (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a computer system is provided comprising processing circuitry configured to acquiring information indicating a temperature of an exhaust aftertreatment system, EATS, of a vehicle, maintaining a current gear of the vehicle in response to the vehicle approaching a downhill slope and the acquired information indicating that the temperature should be increased, and decreasing speed of an engi...