ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,301, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Trailering assist system with hitch ball position detection" was invented by Jigneshkumar Natvarlal Vasoya (Gujarat, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailering assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle. With a trailer hitched to the vehicle at a hitch ball of the vehicle, the camera views at least a portion of the trailer. An electronic control unit includes an image processor operable to process frames of image data captured by the camera. With the trailer hitched to the vehicle at the hitch ball of t...