ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,562, issued on March 25, was assigned to STONERIDGE INC. (Novi, Mich.).
"Trailer end tracking in a camera monitoring system" was invented by Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.), Yifan Men (Northville, Mich.) and Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a trailer end in an image using a controller includes receiving an image from at least one camera, identifying a trailer end in the image and tracking a motion of the trailer end through the image for a period of time using a controller. A motion model is generated based on the motion of the trailer end through the image using the controller....