ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,036, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for reducing straylight reflections" was invented by Chao-Hung Lin (Canton, Mich.) and Sai Vishnu Aluru (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a camera module located within a vehicle, a linear polarizer module positioned in a field of view of the camera module, and a control module in communication with the camera module and the linear polarizer module. The camera module is configured to acquire image frames depicting scenery external to the vehicle and transmit the image frames to a percept...