US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Sept. 22 for "Method and system for calculating vehicle trailer angle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,597, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for calculating vehicle trailer angle" was invented by Robin Plowman (Southwick, Great Britain) and Alexander Kadyrov (Eastbourne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the yaw angle of a trailer with respect to the longitudinal axis of a towing vehicle based on a feature included in multiple captured images by establishing a perpendicular bisector."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/995,141.

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