ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,635, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to R.A. Phillips Industries Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Trailer backup camera system" was invented by Alexander Reid (Huntsville, Ala.), Daniel William Forthoffer (Birmingham, Mich.) and Peter John Pless (South Ogden, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backup camera system includes a housing configured to be mounted to a back of a trailer at a location of a center marker light of the trailer and having a rear surface offset from and facing away from the trailer, a camera at the housing and configured to capture a rear view of the trailer, a first light at a center of the rear surface of the housing, ...