US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for hands-free towing countermeasures" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,898, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Systems and methods for hands-free towing countermeasures" was invented by Vladimeros Vladimerou (Whitmore Lake, Mich.), Yu Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Noah Einstein (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to provide trailer sway countermeasures during hands-free towing obtains sensor data of a vehicle related to a sway condition of a trailer. Based upon the sensor data, a driving scenario is predicted. The predicted driving scenario is then analyzed to determine...