US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Sept. 23 for "Method for automatically adapting a view angle of a rear vision system" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,709, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for automatically adapting a view angle of a rear vision system" was invented by Nicolas Berne (Heyrieux, France) and MinJuan Wang (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically adapting a view angle of a displayed image on a side screen of a rear vision system of a vehicle, said rear vision system having a side camera adapted to generate said displayed image according to a varying view angle between a minimal and maximal value, the method comprising following steps: obtaining instant GPS location data; obtaining a...