US Patent Issued to Range Energy on Sept. 16 for "System and method for dynamic tow of a trailer" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,536, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Range Energy Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for dynamic tow of a trailer" was invented by Ali Javidan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kyle Foley (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Kyle Pollard (Kirkland, Wash.), Bryan Booth (San Mateo, Calif.), Ryan Flatland (Redwood City, Calif.), Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.) and David Sands (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes, during a first time period: detecting a direction of motion of a trailer; detecting a first force applied to a kingpin; detecting an incline angle of the trailer; calculating a ...