US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "System and method for detecting a trailer coupler and planning a trajectory" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,242, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for detecting a trailer coupler and planning a trajectory" was invented by Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Md Mhafuzul Islam (Warren, Mich.), Prakash M. Peranandam (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Ramesh Sethu (Troy, Mich.) and Azeem Sarwar (Rochester Hills, 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 vehicle camera and a trailer camera, a ...