ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,023, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"System for a vehicle" was invented by Kenneth Topolovec (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a vehicle includes an imaging system and a controller. The imaging system outputs a signal that includes scene data of an area to a rear of the vehicle. The controller receives the scene data while a distance between the vehicle and the trailer is altered. The controller identifies a trailer within the area to the rear of the vehicle, identifies a plurality of keypoints of the trailer at a first time point-representing a first posi...