ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,523, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System, server, device and method for training and using neural networks for prediction of vehicle braking distance" was invented by Wen Xu (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a neural network for predicting braking distance of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises performing one or more training stages for the neural network in the vehicle. A first set of weights and biases received from a server is used as an initial set of weights and biases for the neural network during a first training stage. The method f...