US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for a step and scan detection network for hitchball location estimation" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,448, issued on Aug. 26.

"Systems and methods for a step and scan detection network for hitchball location estimation" was invented by Saeid Nooshabadi (Gilroy, Calif.), Yongbo Qian (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Nagasamy (Fremont, Calif.), Gurjeet Singh (Castro Valley, Calif.), Manan Sanjay Patel (Canton, Mich.) and Ali Mustafa (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimation of vehicle hitchball location are disclosed. A plurality of image frames may be received from a rear-facing camera of a vehicle. The rear-facing camera may be directed at a front of a trailer that is coupled to the vehicle at a hitch...