ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,890, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vision system for a vehicle-trailer system" was invented by Michael J. Nocket (Frisco, Texas) and Tyler J. Kass (Hickory Creek, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision system for a vehicle-trailer system includes a vehicle-mounted receiver, a pair of spaced-apart vehicle-mounted Wi-Fi antennas, and a dual-antenna trailer-mounted camera system including a Wi-Fi camera configured to transmit waveforms incorporating video data to the receiver via the vehicle-mounted Wi-Fi ante...