US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 6 for "System and method to locate and label a trailer coupler" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,542, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method to locate and label a trailer coupler" was invented by Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.), Jiabin Shen (Burnaby, Canada), Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Kenneth Weber (Ajax, Canada) and Guanyang Luo (Warren, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for locating a trailer coupler on a trailer to assist with the coupling of the trailer coupler to a vehicle hitch on a vehicle. The system includes a human-machine interface, a camera, a global positioning system, a remote computing system, a vehicle-to-infrastructure communication network, ...