ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,730, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular airbag control system" was invented by Eser Ustunel (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular airbag control system includes a forward-viewing camera and a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle. The vehicular airbag control system, responsive to processing of image data captured by the forward-viewing camera, detects an object present exterior of the vehicle and estimates mass of the detected object. The vehicular airbag control system determines speed of the detected object relative to the vehicle based at least in par...