ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,351, issued on April 7, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular automatic braking system" was invented by Ove J. Salomonsson (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Christopher L. Van Dan Elzen (Rochester, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular automatic braking system includes a forward-viewing camera, a rearward-viewing camera and a radar sensor disposed at an equipped vehicle. When the equipped vehicle is travelling in a traffic lane of a road and a leading vehicle is present forwardly of the equipped vehicle and travelling in the same traffic lane, braking of the equipped vehicle is automatically ...