US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on Sept. 22 for "Object detection system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,858, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Object detection system" was invented by Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Michael J. Higgins-Luthman (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular object detection system includes a camera and a lidar. With the camera mounted at a windshield of a vehicle, and with the lidar mounted at an exterior portion of the vehicle, and based at least in part on processing of image data captured by the camera and lidar data captured by the lidar, a plurality of individual objects present exterior of the vehicle are detected. Based at lea...