ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,862, issued on April 1, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular parking assist system" was invented by Richard C. Bozich (Canton, Mich.), Nikhil Gupta (Brampton, Canada), Suresh Boddi (New Hudson, Mich.), Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Alan M. Cordeiro (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular parking assist system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular parking assist system, via processing of captured sensor data, and while the vehicle is conducting a parking maneuver, detects an object and tracks...