US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 3 for "Lane assistance for vehicles with trailers" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,340, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Lane assistance for vehicles with trailers" was invented by Andrew Denis Lewandowski (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Jordan Barrett (Milford, Mich.), Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Orientations of a vehicle with an attached trailer can be specified for obtaining respective images of the trailer. Respective images of the trailer captured by a vehicle camera at the specified orientations can then be received. The images can be input to a machine learning program trained to outp...