US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Feb. 24 for "Vehicular control system with detection and prevention of unintended motion" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,118, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with detection and prevention of unintended motion" was invented by Sai Sunil Charugundla Gangadhar (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU) having an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. Responsive to processing by the image processor of captured image data, the ECU detects an object in the vicinity of the vehicle. The ECU, responsive to detecting the object, determines mo...