ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,558, issued on June 17, was assigned to STONERIDGE INC. (Novi, Mich.).
"Trailer clearance monitoring system for commercial vehicles" was invented by Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.), John Kirwan (Troy, Mich.) and Banuprakash Murthy (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera monitor system for a vehicle includes at least one forward facing camera that has a field of view that at least partially encompasses a route of forward travel of the vehicle. A camera monitor system (CMS) is configured to receive a video feed from the at least one forward facing camera. The CMS includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores...