US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 15 for "Trailer height and hitch ball calculation" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,589, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Trailer height and hitch ball calculation" was invented by Ali Mustafa (Dearborn, Mich.), Amey Karnik (Canton, Mich.), Haitham Alanssari (Novi, Mich.), Yashwanth Reddy Gatla (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Cameron Husted (Belleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A towing assist system for a vehicle includes a marker positioned on a trailer. An imaging device is in connection with the vehicle and configured to capture image data demonstrating a rearward-directed field of view. A controller processes the image data depicting the characteristic mark...