US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 4 for "Methods and systems for providing trailer guidance" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,480, issued on March 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for providing trailer guidance" was invented by Steffen P. Lindenthal (Oshawa, Canada), Michael D. Alarcon (Markham, Canada), Akram M. Abdel-Rahman (Ajax, Canada) and Norman J. Weigert (Whitby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for providing guidance when reversing a vehicle towing a trailer. In one embodiment, a method includes: A method for providing guidance when reversing a vehicle towing a trailer, comprising: receiving, from a camera of the trailer, image data associated with an enviro...