US Patent Issued to PACCAR on Dec. 2 for "System and methods for autonomously backing a vehicle to a trailer" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,878, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System and methods for autonomously backing a vehicle to a trailer" was invented by Stan DeLizo (Lynwood, Wash.), Ted Scherzinger (Sammamish, Wash.), Yen-Lin Han (Seattle), Austin Chong (Fremont, Calif.), Christian Heussy (Seattle), Caroline Hofgaard (Duvall, Wash.), Oleksiy Khomenko (Spokane, Wash.), Pauline Shammami (Seattle) and Kirstin Schauble (Meadow Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, techniques are provided for autonomously backing a vehicle (such as a Class 8 truck) to a trailer. In some embodiments, environment sensors such as...