ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,370, issued on April 14, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular control system" was invented by Ramachandra Bhat Kotambail (Karnataka State, India) and Komal Jha (Karnataka State, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle. The ECU includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera and transferred to the ECU. The vehicular control system, responsive to processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, determines a condition ext...