ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,918, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assistance system with enhanced road curve management" was invented by SeHwan Kim (Troy, Mich.), Sasi Preetham Devarasetty (Union City, Calif.) and Tejas Murlidhar Varunjikar (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driving assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle. The system, while the equipped vehicle is traveling along a traffic lane, determines lane markings of the traffic lane. The system determines curvature of the traffic lane based on (i) curvature of the determined lane markings and (ii) map data...