US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "Trailer GPS location storage and recall for hitch assist operation" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,156, issued on April 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Trailer GPS location storage and recall for hitch assist operation" was invented by Luke Niewiadomski (Dearborn, Mich.), George Edmund Walley (Novi, Mich.), Arnav Sharma (Canton, Mich.), Roger Arnold Trombley (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Frederic Christen (Walhorn, Belgium), Kyle Simmons (New Boston, Mich.), Li Xu (Northville, Mich.) and Eric Hongtei Tseng (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a vehicle steering system, a detection system outputting a signal includin...