US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 12 for "Trailer angle estimation using machine learning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,671, issued on May 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Trailer angle estimation using machine learning" was invented by Ayon Sen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a trailer angle may be estimated using one or more machine learning models to predict one or more keypoints on the center axis of the trailer drawbar (e.g., a keypoint representing the drawbar junction around which the drawbar pivots, one or more other keypoints along the center axis), back-projecting the predicted keypoint(s) onto a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the ground, and calculating the angle betw...