US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Feb. 4 for "Vehicular multi-sensor system using a camera and lidar sensor to detect objects" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,717, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular multi-sensor system using a camera and lidar sensor to detect objects" was invented by Martin Solar (Erlenbach, Germany) and Christopher L Van Dan Elzen (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular multi-sensor system includes a plurality of sensors that include at least a forward-viewing camera and a forward-sensing 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor. The forward-viewing camera views (i) a traffic lane of a multi-lane road being traveled along by the equipped vehicle and (ii) another traffic lane of the multi-lane road, and the fi...