US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 3 for "Methods and apparatus to control a vehicle trailer using torque vectoring" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,341, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to control a vehicle trailer using torque vectoring" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Lorne Forsythe (Novi, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Andrew Denis Lewandowski (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Michael Alan McNees (Flat Rock, Mich.) and Jordan Barrett (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to control a vehicle trailer using torque vectoring are disclosed. An example apparatus to control a trailer of a vehicle includes condition determination circuitry to determine, based...