US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Methods and systems for estimating trailer tongue load" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,207, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for estimating trailer tongue load" was invented by Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Michelle Zirngibl Taylor (Milford, Mich.), Lance G Lamson (Swartz Creek, Mich.), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada) and Brian Porto (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: initiating, by a processor, steering excitation according to a pattern while the vehicle is stationary; learning, by the processor, a lo...