US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 8 for "Methods for assisting automatic uncoupling/coupling of a trailer" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,983, issued on July 8, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Methods for assisting automatic uncoupling/coupling of a trailer" was invented by Leo Laine (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes the steps of parking a trailer by means of a towing vehicle, which trailer is coupled to the towing vehicle via a coupling element of the trailer; the towing vehicle estimating position and heading of the coupling element of the parked trailer; transmitting the estimated position and heading of the coupling element of the parked trailer to a data storage device; and automatically uncoupling the tra...