US Patent Issued to Magna Mirrors of America on Aug. 11 for "Vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly with driver monitoring camera" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,303, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).

"Vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly with driver monitoring camera" was invented by Anthony J. LaCross (Hastings, Mich.) and Justin E. Sobecki (Rockford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly, a cabin monitoring camera accommodated by a mirror head of the mirror assembly, and a near infrared light source accommodated by the mirror head. The mirror head includes a chin portion disposed at a lower region of the mirror head. The chin portion of the mirr...