ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,937, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method of controlling an auxiliary system of a transportation vehicle" was invented by Philippe Bon (St Bonnet de Mure, France) and Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of controlling an auxiliary system of a transportation vehicle, the method comprising determining, by a processing circuitry, manual actuation of a start actuator of the vehicle for a predetermined duration; determining, by the processing circuitry, a driver seat state of a driver seat of the vehicle as being occupied or not occupied;...