ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,868, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for controlling a power assembly" was invented by Staffan Luong (Boras, Sweden) and Tove Audhav (Landvetter, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a power assembly comprising a fuel cell unit and an electric energy storage system for storing excess electric energy produced by the fuel cell unit. The method comprises predicting a power demand from the power assembly over a prediction time horizon, obtaining a state-of-charge and/or power capability of the electric energy storage system, based on the predicted power demand t...