ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,161, issued on April 21, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with multiple exterior viewing cameras" was invented by Johannes Wolf (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a plurality of exterior-viewing cameras disposed at a vehicle. The plurality of exterior-viewing cameras comprises at least one rearward-viewing camera and a forward-viewing camera. At least in part via processing at an electronic control unit (ECU) of image data captured by the cameras and transferred to the ECU, the vehicular control system (i) determines a traf...