US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on May 19 for "Automatic lift gate opener using vehicular rear camera" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,117, issued on May 19, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Automatic lift gate opener using vehicular rear camera" was invented by Karthikeyan Manickam (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Arun Pasupathi (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing rear of the vehicle, and an electronic control unit (ECU) having an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The vehicular vision system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines an individual has moved wi...