US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Feb. 17 for "Vehicular trailering assist system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,456, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular trailering assist system" was invented by Mohammadmehdi Jalalmaab (Waterloo, Canada), Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Devendra Bajpai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Alexander Velichko (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailering assist system includes a rearward viewing camera at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU). During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer while the vehicle is in motion and the trailer is hitched to the vehicle, the ECU (i) determines a target trajectory for the trailer, ...