ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,107, issued on July 29.
"Method for truck backup with dynamic length" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Bradford Scott Bondy (St. Clair Shores, Mich.), Muhannad Anwar Hamdan (Canton, Mich.) and Christian Wegner (Grosse Ile, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a tailgate configured to move between retracted and extended positions is disclosed. The vehicle includes a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a third detection unit and a control unit. The control unit obtains a first input from the first detection unit and determines whether the tailgate is in extended position. The control u...