ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,372, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular control system with passing control function" was invented by Martin Rachor (Heimbuchenthal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes cameras and radar sensors disposed at an equipped vehicle. As the equipped vehicle travels forward along a traffic lane of a multi-lane road, the system, responsive at least in part to processing of image data captured by a forward-viewing camera and/or radar data captured by a forward sensing radar sensor, detects a leading vehicle traveling in the traffic lane that the eq...