ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,242, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle camera system" was invented by Geoffrey Francis Burns (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sreenivasulu Gosangi (San Ramon, Calif.), Michael Adkins Knott (San Mateo, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Madaparambil (San Jose, Calif.), Vishwas Venkatachalapathy (Newark, Calif.), Vinay Palakkode (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vikram Appia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a vehicle camera system. A device implementing the subject technology may include a processor configured to detect a first camera on a vehicle and a seco...