US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Aug. 12 for "Vehicular trailer angle detection system for fifth-wheel trailers" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,295, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular trailer angle detection system for fifth-wheel trailers" was invented by Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Harold E. Joseph (Brampton, Canada), Prasanna Ananthakrishnan (Tamilnadu, India), Alexander Velichko (Toronto) and Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailer assist system includes a rearward viewing camera viewing a trailer hitched at a fifth wheel hitch at a bed of the vehicle. With the trailer hitched to the vehicle, the vehicular trailer assist system tran...