ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,360, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for rearview mirror misalignment detection" was invented by Dushyant Goyal (Great Neck, N.Y.), Yan Zhai (Milpitas, Calif.) and Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for facilitating alignment of a rearview mirror for a vehicle user or driver. Example methods may include determining, using control circuitry, a location of a driver of a vehicle, identifying, using the control circuitry, a region of interest associated with the vehicle, and determining, using the...