US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Jan. 13 for "System and method for positioning a tow vehicle and a trailer" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,294, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for positioning a tow vehicle and a trailer" was invented by Mehdi Abroshan (Waterloo, Canada), Henry W. Grasman (Flushing, Mich.), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Zhi Li (Unionville, Canada) and Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a tow vehicle and a trailer includes identifying at least one of transient state of operating characteristics or steady state operating characteristics. A transient state based estimation is performed if the transient state operating char...