ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,661, issued on June 2, was assigned to Magna Electronics Sweden AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Vision device and vision apparatus for a motor vehicle" was invented by Vincent Lingehed (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision device (11) for a motor vehicle adapted to capture images of the surrounding of the motor vehicle and includes alignment elements (21a-21c, 23a-23b) each adapted to cooperate with a corresponding alignment counter-element (42a-42c, 44a-44b) of a holding part (15) in order to align the vision device (11) relative to the holding part (15). Each alignment element (21a-21c, 23a-23b) has a planar surface (22...