US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for estimating hitch articulation angle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,295, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for estimating hitch articulation angle" was invented by Ali Rafiei (Newmarket, Canada), Yun Qian Miao (Waterloo, Canada) and Alaa Khamis (Courtice, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing, in a datastore device, intrinsic and extrinsic parameter data associated with an image sensor coupled to a trailer and configured to capture an image that includes at least a portion of the vehicle; receiving, by a processor, image data from the imag...