US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Oct. 7 for "Wheel slip-based motion control for heavy-duty vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,676, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Wheel slip-based motion control for heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Teodoro Bora (Gothenburg, Sweden), Viktor Lagnert (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ramadan Salif (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling motion by a heavy-duty vehicle, where the vehicle is arranged to be controlled based on a target longitudinal wheel slip of at least one driven wheel on the vehicle. The method includes: monitoring an acceleration of the vehicle; monitoring a current longitudinal wheel slip of the at least one driven wheel; reducing the ta...