US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Aug. 5 for "Vehicular trailering assist system with automatic trailer recognition" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,783, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular trailering assist system with automatic trailer recognition" was invented by Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Harold E. Joseph (Brampton, Canada) and Prasanna Ananthakrishnan (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailering assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. The vehicular trailering assist system transforms captured image data into a bird's-eye view of the hitch of the trailer, and accesses a plurality of stored trailer templates, with each respe...