US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on June 23 for "Vehicular driving assist system with enhanced estimation of objects" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,116, issued on June 23, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assist system with enhanced estimation of objects" was invented by Benjamin L. Ellis (Somerville, Mass.), Kevin S. O'Brien (Somerville, Mass.) and Samuel Cerqueira Pinto (Medfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a vehicle dynamics sensor disposed at a vehicle and capturing vehicle dynamics data representative of a state of motion of the vehicle. The vehicular control system, when the vehicle is at a first location on a road the vehicle is traveling along, determines the state of motion of ...