US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Feb. 18 for "Integrating a sensing system into headlight optics" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,653, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Magna Electronics LLC (Southfield, Mich.).

"Integrating a sensing system into headlight optics" was invented by Bernard de Mersseman (Lowell, Mass.) and Peter Hansson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes an infrared emitter to output infrared light towards a target, where the infrared light reflects from the target to produce reflected infrared light, and a detector to receive the reflected infrared light and to provide a signal based on the reflected infrared light. The system also includes a lighting system that includes a light emitter to output visible light,...