ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,206, issued on June 30.

"Vehicle surveillance and security system" was invented by Robyn T. Williams (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle surveillance and security system utilizes a camera to identify suspect vehicles that may have followed the driver's vehicle over a threshold distance to alert the driver of a potential threat. The system may utilize a singe camera, a camera that actuates or a plurality of cameras. A control system with a computing device analyzes the digital images to determine if a suspect vehicle is identified in a first and a second image over a threshold distance that the driver's vehicle has tr...