US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 26 for "Application of auxiliary lighting in automatic hitch operation" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,859, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Application of auxiliary lighting in automatic hitch operation" was invented by Luke Niewiadomski (Dearborn, Mich.), Douglas Rogan (Mountainview, Calif.), Shannon Brooks-Lehnert (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chen Zhang (South Rockwood, Mich.), Roger Arnold Trombley (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Peter Ling (Canton, Mich.), Kenneth Michael Mayer (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny (Canton, Mich.), Bo Bao (Bloomfield, Mich.) and Steven Wayne Friedlander (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle hitching assistance system includes a controller e...