ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,057, issued on April 29, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).
"Vehicular video mirror system utilizing a trailer camera" was invented by Rodney K. Blank (Zeeland, Mich.), Christopher R. Koetje (Zeeland, Mich.) and Patrick M. Foley IV (Nunica, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular video mirror system includes a display device having a video display screen accommodated by a mirror head of an interior rearview mirror assembly. The vehicular video mirror system is operable in a mirror mode or a display mode. A vehicle-mounted rearward-viewing digital camera is disposed at the vehicle and a trailer-mou...