US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Trailer loading suspension sway and rollaway detection and prevention" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,038, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Trailer loading suspension sway and rollaway detection and prevention" was invented by Brian K. Saylor (South Lyon, Mich.), Devon Robert Hall (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Matthew Watts (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for trailer loading suspension sway and rollaway (TLSR) detection in a vehicle includes a trailer attached to a vehicle via a hitch. Sensors detect a load on vehicle suspension. A TLSR application monitors vehicle state information, determines that initialization conditions have been met, and monitors, via the senso...