US Patent Issued to STONERIDGE ELECTRONICS on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus for determining trailer angle" (Michigan, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,323, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to STONERIDGE ELECTRONICS AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for determining trailer angle" was invented by Po-Jen Wang (Daly City, Calif.), Rahul Mangharam (Philadelphia), Bradley J. Corrodi (Princeton, N.J.), John Couperthwaite (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tom Agnello (Northville, Mich.) and Dominik Marx (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a trailer angle includes obtaining a birds-eye view image of a commercial vehicle based on image data from at least one camera mounted to the commercial vehicle that depicts at least one side of the trailer. The commercial vehicle...