US Patent Issued to STONERIDGE on April 8 for "Image based trailer wheelbase determination" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,544, issued on April 8, was assigned to STONERIDGE INC. (Novi, Mich.).

"Image based trailer wheelbase determination" was invented by Mohammad Gudarzi (San Diego), Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.), Utkarsh Sharma (Troy, Mich.) and Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a trailer detection parameter of a trailer including receiving an image from at least one camera at a controller. The at least one camera defines a field of view including at least a portion of a vehicle trailer. The method determines a trailer angle of the vehicle trailer relative to a tractor, identifies at least one ...