ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,866, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular trailering guidance system" was invented by Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailer guidance system includes a human machine interface provided in the vehicle and operable by a driver of the vehicle during a backing up maneuver of the vehicle with a trailer hitched thereto. The human machine interface comprises a freely rotatable rotary knob and operates (i) in a backing up trailer left-backup mode when rotated counter-clockwise, (ii) in a backin...