ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,461, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Path planning for tow vehicle and trailer" was invented by Andrew Phillip Bolduc (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of planning a path for reversing a trailer along a defined path a includes defining a desired end point for a trailer path and determining a set of reversing trailer curvatures for moving the trailer between each of a plurality of possible waypoints along a possible trailer path. A steering angle is determined for each of the curvatures. The reversing trailer path to the end point is then c...