ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,032, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Monitoring system for a vehicle" was invented by Philipp Hoffmann (Hannover, Germany), Mark Riebe (Kranzberg, Germany) and Jasper Stern (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a vehicle includes a camera mounted on the exterior of the vehicle, a display device mounted in an interior space of the vehicle, and a control device that presents an image scanned by the camera on the display device. The display device comprises a screen and a reflective element that presents to a person on-board the vehicle an image that appears at a point w...