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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2023
R.a. Phillips Industries, Inc., Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);
Alexander Reid, Huntsville, AL (US);
Daniel William Forthoffer, Birmingham, MI (US);
Peter John Pless, South Ogden, UT (US);
R.A. Phillips Industries, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A backup camera system includes a housing configured to be mounted to a back of a trailer at a location of a center marker light of the trailer and having a rear surface offset from and facing away from the trailer, a camera at the housing and configured to capture a rear view of the trailer, a first light at a center of the rear surface of the housing, a second light at the rear surface of the housing and offset from the first light, and a controller within the housing and configured to selectively couple the first light or the second light to a wiring of the center marker light of the trailer.