US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on June 2 for "Systems and methods of monitoring and control for trailer dynamics" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,963, issued on June 2, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods of monitoring and control for trailer dynamics" was invented by Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas), Nicholas Atanasov (Blacksburg, Va.), Rohit Salem (Blacksburg, Va.) and Sebastian Dingler (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trailer detection is provided. A vehicle can determine a distance to a portion of the trailer from the time-of-flight sensor data. The vehicle can determine a doppler shift indicative of a speed of a wheel of a wheel assembly from the data. The vehicle can determine, based on the distance and the dop...