ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,179, issued on April 14, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method of determining a left-or-right side installation position of a trailer wheel" was invented by Radu Catanet (Timisoara, Romania) and Andrei-Stefan Cimponeriu (Giroc, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a left or right side installation position of a trailer wheel of a trailer connected to a tow vehicle. A number of rotations of the trailer wheel is determined. A number of rotations of a left side tow vehicle wheel and a right side tow vehicle wheel is determined. A first correspondence value betwee...