US Patent Issued to Hunter Engineering on Feb. 17 for "System and method for detecting axle configuration on a multi-axle vehicle" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,713, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hunter Engineering Co. (St. Louis).

"System and method for detecting axle configuration on a multi-axle vehicle" was invented by John M. Boncek (Maryland Heights, Mo.), Timothy A. Strege (Sunset Hills, Mo.) and Nicholas J. Colarelli III (Frontenac, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-vision vehicle wheel alignment measurement system configured with at least one optical sensor to acquire images of optical targets disposed within an operative field of view. The system further includes a processing system configured with software instructions to determine relative spatial positions and or...