US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 1 for "Systems and methods for navigating a trailer with a vehicle when a physical connection disconnects" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,241, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for navigating a trailer with a vehicle when a physical connection disconnects" was invented by Corey Zwegers (Dexter, Mich.), Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.), Sergei S. Avedisov (Los Gatos, Calif.), Paul Timothy Fanson (Howell, Mich.), Gregg J. Overfield (Canton, Mich.), Miles J. Johnson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shigenori Shibata (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Adam R. VanAntwerp (Chelsea, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to navigating a traile...