ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,638, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Portable Multimedia Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Vehicle security device" was invented by Ceri Hill (London), Graham Lambert (London) and Sam Lewis (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle security device mountable to a surface to the rear of a rear-view mirror of a vehicle, comprising: a first image capture device configured to receive images in a first direction relative to the security device; a second image capture device facing a second direction, the second direction different from the first direction; and a first object detection module configured to detect the presence of an obj...