US Patent Issued to STONERIDGE on June 24 for "Trailer change detection system for commercial vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,911, issued on June 24, was assigned to STONERIDGE INC. (Novi, Mich.).

"Trailer change detection system for commercial vehicles" was invented by Banuprakash Murthy (Novi, Mich.), Naveen Bonagiri (Northville, Mich.), Vamsi Konka (Novi, Mich.) and Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a load status change of a trailer includes responding to a first triggering event by storing a first snapshot of a trailer that is generated by at least one camera that is local to a vehicle that includes the trailer, responding to a subsequent second triggering event by storing a second snapshot of t...