US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility US on May 27 for "Long-term visual trailer tracker for vehicle-trailer angle estimation" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,194, issued on May 27, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Long-term visual trailer tracker for vehicle-trailer angle estimation" was invented by Eduardo Jose Ramirez Llanos (Rochester, Mich.), Julien Ip (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Victor Manuel Camacho Ruiz (Queretaro, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for visual trailer tracking of vehicle-trailer angle estimation, including: (a) camera receiving images, each most recently received image being identified as a current image, replacing a previously identified current image; (b) during a driving maneuver, extracting visual features fr...