ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,587, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Phillips Connect Technologies LLC (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.).
"Smart trailer system" was invented by Adam Bean (Hacienda Heights, Calif.), Timothy Ronald Jackson (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Douglas Chambers (San Pedro, Calif.), Ruben Chicas (San Pedro, Calif.), Robert Alexander Phillips (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Thomas Begin (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart trailer system coupled to a trailer of a vehicle includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of the trailer, a sensor interface board electrically coupled to the sensor and configured to retrieve the measured paramet...