ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,719, issued on March 31, was assigned to HORIZON GLOBAL AMERICAS INC. (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Remote control of a brake controller for a towed vehicle" was invented by Chandrakumar D. Kulkarni (Battle Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to remote control of a brake controller for a towed vehicle. An example communication system includes a controller management application operating on a mobile device and a brake controller that includes a wireless network controller to communicatively couple to the mobile device. The controller management application manages a plurality of profiles. Each profile includes ...