US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Oct. 7 for "Use of acoustic vehicle alerting systems for battery powered heavy-duty vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,589, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Use of acoustic vehicle alerting systems for battery powered heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Sondre Landvik (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Sebastien Ragot (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control unit for an electrically powered vehicle unit, the vehicle control unit comprising at least one input port arranged to receive data associated with a status of one or more electrical system components, the vehicle control unit comprising an output port arranged to trigger a warning signal by an acoustic vehicle alerting system, AVAS, whe...