ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,431, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for estimating trailer tongue values" was invented by Tushita Arun Sikder (Windsor, Canada), Jackson Barry McGrory (Mississauga, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Henry Warren Grasman (Flushing, Mich.) and Lance G. Lamson (Swartz Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a vehicle towing a trailer. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, sensor data from one or more sensors of the vehicle; estimating, by a pr...