US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on March 24 for "Vehicular control system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,486, issued on March 24, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system" was invented by Hasib Hassan (Belleville, Mich.), Sylvie Wacquant (Mainhausen, Germany) and Heinz B. Seifert (Ortonville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes at least one camera disposed in a vehicle and viewing a driver of the vehicle who is sitting in a driver seat of the vehicle. The vehicular control system is operable to drive the vehicle along a road in accordance with SAE Level 3. The vehicular control system determines, at least in part via processing of image data captured by...