US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 9 for "Trailer sway detection and control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,902, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Trailer sway detection and control" was invented by Christopher J. Smalley (Canton, Mich.), Steven W. Marion (Canton, Mich.) and Brian J. Haugen (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments are described with respect to implementing trailer sway detection strategies. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a lateral motion signal, determining if a number of peaks in the lateral motion signal satisfies a first criterion, determining if ...