US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on April 29 for "Vehicular driving assist system with collision avoidance" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,102, issued on April 29, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assist system with collision avoidance" was invented by Wilhelm Johann Wolfgang Wohlte (Sailauf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a front camera disposed at a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the system and a side camera disposed at a side mirror of the vehicle. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the cameras. The vehicular vision system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the front ca...