US Patent Issued to STONERIDGE on Nov. 3 for "Camera monitor system for articulated trailer using image stitching" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,000, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STONERIDGE INC. (Novi, Mich.).

"Camera monitor system for articulated trailer using image stitching" was invented by John Couperthwaite (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Vamsi Konka (Novi, Mich.) and Catalin Marius Gafencu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying a trailer of a vehicle includes capturing a tractor image and trailer image respectively from a tractor camera and a trailer camera, identifying a triggering event that relates to a loss of a view of at least a portion of trailer in the tractor image, stitching the tractor and trailer images together, and displaying the trail...