US Patent Issued to Outrider Technologies on June 30 for "Radar systems and method for backing a trailer" (Colorado, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,600, issued on June 30, was assigned to Outrider Technologies Inc. (Henderson, Colo.).

"Radar systems and method for backing a trailer" was invented by Ashutosh Ghosh (Golden, Colo.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.), Lawrence Klein (Bend, Ore.), Walter Jason Altice (Denver) and Devin Jaenicke (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A RADAR system and associated methods are used to detect obstacles obscured from view when backing a trailer. An autonomous tractor is equipped with a rear facing RADAR device that has a field-of-view under the trailer and is configured to output RADAR returns from reflections. A controller of the t...