US Patent Issued to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for gear guard cable tracking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,421, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for gear guard cable tracking" was invented by Jonathan David Salerno (Newport, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to detect a motion event corresponding to at least one of a vehicle tow assembly, a winch assembly, or a gear guard cable. With the use of one or more cameras, the system captures images of a cable (e.g., a gear guard cable, a winch cable, or a tow cable). With the use of processing circuitry, a cable is identified in the captured images. The movement of the cable is tracked in the ca...