US Patent Issued to Magna Mirrors of America on May 20 for "Vehicular driver monitoring system with driver monitoring camera and near IR light emitter at interior rearview mirror assembly" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,391, issued on May 20, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).

"Vehicular driver monitoring system with driver monitoring camera and near IR light emitter at interior rearview mirror assembly" was invented by Anthony J. LaCross (Hastings, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly. A PCB is accommodated by a mirror head and a heat generating electronic component is disposed at the PCB. A heat sink is thermally coupled with the PCB and, when the heat generating electronic component generates heat, the heat sink draws heat away from the...