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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Keith Weston, Canton, MI (US);
Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Brendan Diamond, Grosse Pointe, MI (US);
Jordan Barrett, Milford, MI (US);
Matthew Johnson, Toledo, OH (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine threshold speed for a vehicle and trailer are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, instructions, and programmable circuitry to execute the instructions to access information associated with at least one of a vehicle or a trailer coupled to the vehicle, determine, by executing a model based on the information, a threshold speed for the vehicle and the trailer, and prevent, by activating at least one vehicle control, the vehicle and the trailer from travelling at or above the threshold speed.