US Patent Issued to PlusAI on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for compensating for unique trailer of tractor trailer with autonomous vehicle system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,372, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for compensating for unique trailer of tractor trailer with autonomous vehicle system" was invented by Siva Bhargav Ravella (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiaoyu Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes an initial trailer health assessment and real-time trailer health monitoring. The initial trailer health assessment includes autonomous pre-trip maneuvers of the autonomous vehicle during a first time period, and detecting a pre-trip vehicle health condition. A vehicle health score is calculated based on the pre...