US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Vehicular vision system with controlled exterior lighting device and camera" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,148, issued on April 21, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular vision system with controlled exterior lighting device and camera" was invented by Clarence P. McElroy (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Axel Nix (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes an exterior lighting assembly that illuminates a field of illumination exterior of a vehicle. A light source controller operates the exterior lighting assembly in a repeating cycle that includes (i) a first illumination period wherein light emitted by the exterior lighting assembl...