US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on June 23 for "Method and system for estimation of mass and a center of gravity of a truck-trailer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,329, issued on June 23, 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 (Denkendorf, 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 chassis spring of the vehicle based on first sensor data of the first set of plurality of image sensors; (ii) determining a second distance between the center point a...