US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Feb. 4 for "Method and system for determining an articulation angle of a vehicle combination" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,197, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for determining an articulation angle of a vehicle combination" was invented by Daniel Persson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Hans Deragarden (Kullavik, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an articulation angle of a vehicle combination comprising a first vehicle section, such as a truck, and a second vehicle section, such as a trailer or dolly unit, which are connected via a first articulation joint, wherein the first vehicle section comprises an image obtaining device which is configured to obtain images of the secon...