US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on March 25 for "Vehicular trailering guidance system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,065, issued on March 25, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular trailering guidance system" was invented by Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Richard C. Bozich (Canton, Mich.) and Alexander Velichko (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailer guidance system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a rear backup camera disposed at a vehicle. A human machine interface (HMI) is operable in (i) a trailer left-backup mode, (i) a trailer straight-backup mode and (iii) a trailer right-backup mode. Responsive to selection by the driver of t...