US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for trailer wheelbase measurement for autonomous vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,246, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for trailer wheelbase measurement for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dennis Kinder (Ostfildern, Germany) and Stefan Heyer (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle selectively couplable to a trailer includes at least one sensor configured to capture data of an environment in which the autonomous vehicle operates and an autonomy computing system operably coupled to the at least one sensor. The autonomy computing system includes at least one memory device in communication with at least one proc...