ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,445, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Automatic trailer brake gain scaling system and method using hitch forces" was invented by Avesta Goodarzi (Whitby, Canada), Utkarsh Saini (Pickering, Canada), Patrick Giancarlo Gabriel DiGioacchino (Niagara Falls, Canada) and Hasan Alper Hepguvendik (Milton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems automatically scale and set trailer brake gain without a need for vehicle driver input and without testing. Scaling a trailer brake gain of a trailer towed by a vehicle includes obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of the vehic...