US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on April 29 for "Vehicular control system with autonomous braking" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,154, issued on April 29, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with autonomous braking" was invented by Venkata Satya Siva Prasad Challa (Troy, Mich.) and Nikunj Vinubhai Kumbhani (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a camera and a radar sensor disposed at an equipped vehicle. The system, via processing of image data and processing of sensor data, determines other vehicles present on the road ahead of the equipped vehicle. The system, responsive to determining the presence of a plurality of other vehicles present on the road, determines a thre...