Wireless vehicle-trailer interface system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10168708
APP PUB NO 20180284781A1
SERIAL NO

15474834

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A wireless vehicle-trailer interface system for communication between a vehicle and a trailer is provided. The vehicle may include a vehicle hitch, a vehicle control system, a vehicle radio frequency system, and a processor, the processor configured to generate a unique data packet for each vehicle radio frequency system, determine, for each received response packet, a distance between a corresponding receiving vehicle radio frequency system and a corresponding transmitting trailer radio frequency systems, determine a relative physical position of each vehicle radio frequency system and trailer radio frequency system, determine dimensions of the trailer, determine a physical position of a vehicle hitch and a trailer coupled, and generate instructions for the vehicle control system to cause the vehicle to move to align the vehicle hitch with a trailer coupler.

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GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC300 RENAISSANCE CENTER MAIL CODE 482-C23-B21 DETROIT MI 48265-3000

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Camden, Andrew R Royal Oak, US 3 77
Cohen, Daniel T West Bloomfield, US 10 78
Lavi, Nadav Ramat-Hasharon, IL 53 341
Scheim, Kobi Pardess Hanna, IL 9 5

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