ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,043, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for determining the angular position of a complex vehicle with two axes of rotation, and system configured to implement such a method" was invented by Vicente Poveda Carias (Toulouse, France), David Guerrero (Toulouse, France) and Jean-Baptiste Vimort (St Genis les Ollieres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the angular position of a vehicle including a towing vehicle, a towing platform articulated on the towing vehicle, and a trailer articulated on the towing platform. The method includes c...