US Patent Issued to Aeva on Sept. 30 for "Techniques for dynamic trailer monitoring using frequency modulated continuous wave based lidar" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,588, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for dynamic trailer monitoring using frequency modulated continuous wave based lidar" was invented by Jim Tan (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Reuther (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamic monitoring of a trailer using a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system comprising: scanning the trailer using a set of sensors positioned on a tractor towing the trailer to generate a point cloud of the trailer and monitoring an initial set of motion data of the trailer produced within the point cloud, wherein the motio...