US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIOS on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for estimating vehicle load and trailer tongue load based on camera images" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,335, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIOS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for estimating vehicle load and trailer tongue load based on camera images" was invented by Steffen Peter Lindenthal (Oshawa, Canada), Avesta Goodarzi (Whitby, Canada) and Utkarsh Saini (Pickering, Canada).

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, image data from one or more image sensors of the vehicle; determining, by the processor, a change in vehicle height based on the image data; determining, by the process...