US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for trailer angle detection" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,129, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for trailer angle detection" was invented by Gaurav Pandey (College Station, Texas) and Nikita Jaipuria (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailer angle identification system includes an imaging device configured to capture an image. A controller is configured to receive steering angle data corresponding to a steering angle of a vehicle, receive vehicle speed data corresponding to a vehicle speed, and estimate an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle by processing the image, the steering angle data, and the ve...