US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Sept. 23 for "Adaptive path following algorithm for heavy-duty vehicles" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,788, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Adaptive path following algorithm for heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Yangyan Gao (Gothenburg, Sweden), Shammi Rahman (Lincoln, Great Britain), Timothy Gordon (Lincoln, Great Britain) and Leon Henderson (Harryda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a heavy-duty vehicle to follow a reference path (P), the method comprising obtaining the reference path (P) to be followed by the vehicle, determining a goal point (G) along the path (P) to be used as a steering reference from a vehicle location (x) in vicinity of the path (P)...