US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Feb. 18 for "Method and system for calculating vehicle trailer angle" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,042, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for calculating vehicle trailer angle" was invented by Robin Plowman (Southwick, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the yaw angle of a trailer with respect to the longitudinal axis of a towing vehicle based on at least one feature included in multiple captured images by providing multiple algorithms for calculating at least one angle estimation."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/995,120.

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