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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2023
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Christian Wegner, Grosse lle, MI (US);

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);

Muhannad Anwar Hamdan, Canton, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 40/13 (2012.01); G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 40/13 (2013.01); G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); B60W 2040/1315 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2300/12 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2530/10 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle is provided including a plurality of wheel assemblies, a body supported on the plurality of wheel assemblies and having a cargo area for receiving a cargo load, a load sensing system configured to sense a vehicle load and generate vehicle load signals indicative of the sensed vehicle load, and an object recognition system configured to detect one or more objects in the cargo area and recognize the one or more objects. The vehicle also includes a controller processing the recognized one or more objects and determining dimensions of the cargo load and an estimated center of gravity of cargo load based on the dimensions of the one or more objects in the cargo area, and generates an output indicative of the estimated center of gravity of the cargo load.


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