ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,925, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicular camera unit" was invented by Reo Harada (Tokyo), Noriaki Hattori (Tokyo) and Kenta Fukuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera unit includes a camera housing, an oblique forward-facing camera, and an oblique rearward-facing camera. The camera housing is attached to a side of a vehicle. The oblique forward-facing camera is provided in the camera housing. The oblique rearward-facing camera is provided in the camera housing. The oblique rearward-facing camera is disposed forward of the oblique forward-facing camera and on an outer side of the ...