ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,631, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Towing determination device" was invented by Takanori Tanaka (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The towing determination device includes a rear sensor and a processor configured to determine whether or not the host vehicle is towing an object based on information obtained from the rear sensor. The processor detects an object OB following the own vehicle while maintaining a constant distance from the own vehicle without deviating from the trajectory TR of the own vehicle while the own vehicle is turning. If so, it is determined that the vehicle i...