US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge on Dec. 30 for "Sensor controlled system, vehicle and method" (Hungarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,363, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Sensor controlled system, vehicle and method" was invented by Jan Grebe (Munich), Valer Merza (Szentendre, Hungary) and Tamas Komlos (Csavoly, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor controlled system includes a ramp docking sensor mountable to a vehicle's rear end and configured to fulfill the functions required for assisting docking of a vehicle to a loading ramp. The ramp docking sensor is further configured to determine a vertical distance of the ramp docking sensor relative to a ground level and to determine a vertical distanc...