US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 17 for "System and method to provide trailer backing assistance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,845, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method to provide trailer backing assistance" was invented by Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada), Allan Kenneth Lewis (Windsor, Canada) and Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailer backing assistance (TBA) application in a vehicle includes a vehicle attached to a trailer by a movable hitch. The TBA utilizes an HMI, sensors on the vehicle, a GPS system, and a remote computing system (RCS). A controller having a processor, memory, and input/output (I/O) communicates with the sensors, HMI, RCS and GPS via ...