US 12,307,409 B2
Tractor-trailer ID methods and system
David B. Lett, Berwyn, PA (US); Uday Shankar, Berwyn, PA (US); Michael Schork, Berwyn, PA (US); Michael T. Harvey, Berwyn, PA (US); and Darrell Parks, Berwyn, PA (US)
Assigned to AMETEK, INC., Berwyn, PA (US)
Appl. No. 18/288,421
Filed by AMETEK, INC., Berwyn, PA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 22, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/025900
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/231962, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/182,233, filed on Apr. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0211852 A1, Jun. 27, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); H04W 4/35 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 4/35 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
3. A tractor-trailer ID system comprising:
a tractor device in a tractor, the tractor device including:
a tractor transceiver,
a tractor display, and
a tractor controller; and
a trailer device in the trailer, the trailer device including:
a trailer transceiver, and
a trailer controller,
wherein tractor-trailer ID system is configured to:
display, via the tractor display, load pickup instructions to a driver of the tractor,
determine that the trailer has been connected to the tractor,
after determining that the trailer is connected to the tractor, transmit, from the trailer transceiver to the tractor transceiver, a trailer ID,
confirm, via the tractor controller, the trailer ID, and
wherein the load pickup instructions do not include the trailer ID and the tractor-device further includes a tractor input device to receive an input trailer ID,
wherein the tractor-trailer ID system is further configured to confirm the trailer ID by comparing the trailer ID from the trailer device to the input trailer ID, and
wherein the tractor device is configured to (i) transmit, via the tractor transceiver, a ping to the trailer device; (ii) receive, via the tractor transceiver, the ping in return from the trailer transceiver; (iii) compute, with the tractor controller, a roundtrip travel time of the ping; and (iv) confirm that the tractor is connected to the trailer based on the roundtrip travel time.