US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Dec. 16 for "Method and device for an assisted or automatic coupling of a trailer vehicle to a towing vehicle, towing vehicle, electronic processing unit, and computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,862, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method and device for an assisted or automatic coupling of a trailer vehicle to a towing vehicle, towing vehicle, electronic processing unit, and computer program" was invented by Christoph Barth (Hannover, Germany) and Andreas Goers (Pattensen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assisted or automatic coupling of a trailer vehicle to a towing vehicle equipped with a coupling element which has a lateral guide for a corresponding coupling counterpart of the trailer vehicle to be inserted into the coupling element, an electronically controlled se...