ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,776, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for warning of hazardous operating conditions of a 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 for warning road users of a hazardous operating condition of a heavy-duty vehicle. The method comprises obtaining, by a processor device of a computer system, a speed limit interval associated with a road on which a heavy-duty vehicle is travelling, and wherein the speed limit interval is based on a speed limit of the road; determining, by...