US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Oct. 21 for "Method for in-motion friction estimation based on steering pulses, computer program, computer readable medium, control device and vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,035, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for in-motion friction estimation based on steering pulses, computer program, computer readable medium, control device and vehicle" was invented by Marcus Fasth (Trollhattan, Sweden) and Umur Erdinc (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in a control unit of a heavy-duty vehicle for estimating road friction, the method comprising, while the vehicle is in motion, generating a steering pulse having a limited time duration and a limited magnitude, measuring a response by the vehicle to the steering pulse, and estimating...