US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 15 for "Tow-vehicle driving methods and systems for automated driving" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,436, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Tow-vehicle driving methods and systems for automated driving" was invented by Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Mehdi Abroshan (Waterloo, Canada) and Michael B. Peppard (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated driver assistance systems and methods for towing predict vehicle/trailer instabilities and adapt automated driving control to avoid them. A tow-vehicle includes a controller that, through an actuator system, controls speed and/or steering. A...