ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,203, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and methods for detecting trailer sway" was invented by Jeremy Michael Young (Chicago), Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France) and Leon Stenneth (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing trailer sway detection. In one example, the apparatus receives sensor data and determines a pitch angle of a trailer based on the sensor data. The apparatus further determines a confidence of trailer sway occurring based on the pitch angle and in response to the confidence exceeding a th...