US Patent Issued to Niagara Bottling on April 7 for "Trailer alignment detection for dock automation using vision system and dynamic depth filtering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,884, issued on April 7, was assigned to Niagara Bottling LLC (Diamond Bar, Calif.).

"Trailer alignment detection for dock automation using vision system and dynamic depth filtering" was invented by Jimmy Erik Penaloza (Riverside, Calif.) and Parth Naresh Patel (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining an alignment of a trailer relative to a docking bay or a vehicle bay door using dynamic depth filtering. Image data and position data is captured by a 3D camera system with an at least partially downward-facing field of view. When a trailer is approaching the docking bay or door, the captured i...