ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,589, issued on March 25, was assigned to MEKRA Lang GmbH & Co. KG (Ergersheim, Germany).

"Method for verifying an indirect view system" was invented by Werner Lang (Ergersheim, Germany), Stefan Centmayer (Ergersheim, Germany) and Alexander Wotschal (Burgbernheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for verifying indirect view system provides image capture unit (10) with image sensor (20), image processing unit (30), reproduction unit (40) and reference transducer (50) at a position at the vehicle (60), such that the reference transducer (50) lies in a recording portion of the image capture unit (10) and is depicted on the ...