US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on April 14 for "Vehicular driving assist system with traffic light recognition" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,934, issued on April 14, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assist system with traffic light recognition" was invented by Dhruv Mathur (Troy, Mich.), Tejas Murlidhar Varunjikar (Troy, Mich.) and Nidhip Naik (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing at least forward of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system, as the vehicle travels along a traffic lane of a road and via processing of image data captured by the camera and based on map data, determines presence of a plurality of traffic lights at an intersectio...