US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Methods and systems for adaptive trailer brake control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,402, issued on June 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for adaptive trailer brake control" was invented by Michael Nguyen (Stoney Creek, Canada) and Todd J. Brinkman (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling deceleration of a vehicle towing a trailer. In an embodiment, a method includes: generating, by a processor, trailer brake command data to pulsate brakes of the trailer; in response to the generating the trailer brake command data, storing, in a data storage device of the vehicle, a first set of deceleration data; ge...