US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility US on March 17 for "Trailer merge warning method and system for a motor vehicle" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,892, issued on March 17, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Trailer merge warning method and system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Carlos Armando Ortiz Lopez (Silao, Mexico), Juan Manuel Garcia Huerta (Queretaro, Mexico), Roberto Guzman Galan (Queretaro, Mexico), Vincey Chui (Chesterfield, Mich.) and Dominik Froehlich (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailer merge function of a tow vehicle includes receiving sensor data from one or more tow vehicle first sensors of an environment that is rearward of a connected tow vehicle. The method includes determining whet...