ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,476, issued on June 2, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Control system and method" was invented by John Hatzakis (Coventry, Great Britain) and Anand Govindankutty (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a control system (1) for providing assistance to an occupant of a vehicle (V1). The control system (1) is configured to receive hitch angle data indicative of a hitch angle (Alpha) of a towed vehicle (V2) coupled to the towing vehicle (V1). The control system (1) selects first and second image data subsets of at least first image data (DIMG1). The first ...