US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Methods and apparatus to determine the load of a vehicle via camera based height measurement" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,304, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine the load of a vehicle via camera based height measurement" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Michael Alan McNees (Flat Rock, Mich.), Lorne Forsythe (Novi, Mich.), Andrew Niedert (New Hudson, Mich.) and Francis Aroyehun (Chelmsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine the load of a vehicle via camera-based height measurement are disclosed herein. An example vehicle described herein includes a suspension assembly associated ...