US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on April 29 for "Vehicular safety system for controlling a safety feature" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,070, issued on April 29, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular safety system for controlling a safety feature" was invented by Ove J. Salomonsson (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular safety system includes a plurality of vehicular cameras disposed at a vehicle. Image data captured by a forward-viewing vehicular camera of the plurality of vehicular cameras is processed by the vehicular safety system for headlamp control and for lane departure warning and/or object detection. At least one other sensing system of the vehicle is operable to capture sensor data. Responsive a...