ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,499, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicular camera with attachment jig and manufacturing method for the same" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryou Fukasawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera with an attachment jig includes a vehicular camera, and an attachment jig for attaching the vehicular camera to a vehicle body. The attachment jig is provided with a first screw hole through which a screw is able to pass, and the vehicular camera is provided with a second screw hole into which the screw is able to be screwed. The scr...