US Patent Issued to ELECTRANS TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Anti-jackknifing control apparatus and method for active converter dolly" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,900, issued on May 13, was assigned to ELECTRANS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Oakville, Calif.).

"Anti-jackknifing control apparatus and method for active converter dolly" was invented by Brian Layfield (Oakville, Canada) and Brian Fan (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed at an apparatus, method and computer readable medium for a self-powered towed vehicle in a road train or tractor-trailer vehicle configuration to detect and respond to forward jack-knifing risk conditions. The apparatus may detect jack-knifing risk conditions based on sensors and information including sensors to detect an angle of misali...