US Patent Issued to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems on Sept. 23 for "Panable camera with trailer length and object detection for mirrorless vehicles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,705, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"Panable camera with trailer length and object detection for mirrorless vehicles" was invented by Thomas J. Hayes (Lakewood, Ohio) and William R. Plow (Avon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are presented herein for a panable camera with trailer length and object detection for vehicles equipped with cameras to supplement or replace mirrors commonly used today. In one embodiment, a vehicle controller is provided comprising: one or more processors; a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and program instructions stored on the...