US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle with camera provided on garnish on edge of window panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,045, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle with camera provided on garnish on edge of window panel" was invented by Shingo Nakayama (Tokyo), Tadahiro Matori (Tokyo), Akira Fujita (Tokyo) and Yuhei Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a passenger opening on a side, and a camera rearward of the passenger opening. The camera has an optical axis oriented in a laterally outward and frontward direction. A door with a side mirror is provided at the passenger opening and has a door window in its upper part. The camera may be located above a lower end of the ...