US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on June 9 for "Vehicular driving assistance system with vehicle state estimation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,465, issued on June 9, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assistance system with vehicle state estimation" was invented by Samuel Cerqueira Pinto (Medfield, Mass.) and Benjamin L. Ellis (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driving assistance system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU). The vehicular driving assistance system, responsive to processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, determines lane markers for a traffic lane along which the vehicle is traveling. The system, using a first Kalman filter and base...