US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on April 7 for "Method and system for estimation of mass and a center of gravity of a truck-trailer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,805, issued on April 7, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Method and system for estimation of mass and a center of gravity of a truck-trailer" was invented by Stefan Oexl (Stuttgart, Germany), Roman Keller (Deckendorf, Germany) and Sebastian Beckmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one processor configured to: (i) determining a first distance between a center point of a wheel of an unloaded vehicle and a touch point on a ground surface of a first section of a driving path based on first sensor data of a first set of plurality of image sensors; (ii) determining a secon...