ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,534, issued on May 20, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Activation of vehicle convoy rear cameras" was invented by Philippe Bon (St Bonnet de Mure, France) and Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor device is provided. The processor device is configured to determine electronic communication with at least two trailers attached to a vehicle, the trailers and the vehicle each being equipped with a rear-view camera; determine a rearmost camera of the rear view cameras; and activate feed from the rearmost camera to a display of the vehicle."
The patent ...