US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on March 24 for "Vehicular trailering assist system with driver monitoring and gesture detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,453, issued on March 24, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular trailering assist system with driver monitoring and gesture detection" was invented by Harold E. Joseph (Brampton, Canada) and Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular trailering assist system includes a rearward viewing camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle. A driver monitoring camera views at least a head region of a driver of the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle with a trailer hitched at a hitch of the vehicle and based at least in part on processing of image data c...