ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,464, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Trailer load distribution sensing systems and methods" was invented by William Gray Davis (Austin, Texas), Hamzah Imtiaz Khan (Austin, Texas) and Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a load distribution of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The system includes a processor in communication with a memory device. The processor is configured to receive weight data from a grid of weight sensors disposed on a cargo bed surface of the autonomous vehicle, generate a weight distribution map of the cargo bed ...