ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,151, issued on May 19, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular vision system" was invented by Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Joel S. Gibson (Linden, Mich.), Duane W. Gebauer (Gregory, Mich.), Richard D. Shriner (Fenton, Mich.) and Patrick A. Miller (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a rear backup camera and a controller having an image processor. A video display screen is disposed in the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. With the vehicular vision system operating in a standard viewing mode, image data captured by the rear backup ...