US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US on March 18 for "Systems and methods for determining trailer pose and coupler position for automated hitching" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,378, issued on March 18, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for determining trailer pose and coupler position for automated hitching" was invented by Rujiao Yan (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location and pose of at least one trailer for hitching to a vehicle includes: receiving at least one image of at least one trailer generated by a camera of the vehicle; locating the at least one trailer in the at least one image; determining a plurality of keypoints associated with at least one trailer in the image using at least o...