US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Method for maneuvering a vehicle having a trailer coupling in a parking space" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,025, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for maneuvering a vehicle having a trailer coupling in a parking space" was invented by Markus Krekel (Wermelskirchen, Germany), Florian Vieten (Meerbusch, Germany), Andreas Giersiefer (Leverkusen, Germany), Elena Lazaridis (Cologne, Germany) and Paul Jamnicki (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for maneuvering a vehicle having a trailer coupling in the region of a parking space is provided, wherein the vehicle has at least a first sensor and a second sensor and a control device, wherein it is detected whether an object ...