ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,953, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stoneridge Electronics AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Trailer striking area prediction using camera monitoring system" was invented by Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.) and Troy Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera monitoring system (CMS) for a vehicle, including a CMS controller including a memory and a processor, the CMS controller being connected to a plurality of cameras disposed about a vehicle and configured to receive a video feed from each of the cameras in the plurality of cameras, the CMS controller including at least one side camera configured to define a rear side ...