ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,819, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular vision system with tailgate control" was invented by Brian D. Brasier (Howell, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and operable to capture image data and an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The vehicle has a tailgate that is pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis and movable along a downward swing path from a closed position toward an opened position. Image data captured by the camera is processed by the image processor to ...