US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on Jan. 13 for "Vehicular vision system with underbody object detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,506, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular vision system with underbody object detection" was invented by Naresh Ravuri (Novi, Mich.), Bijukumar Sivasankarapillai (Novi, Mich.) and Sushanth Perukkanchery (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at an underside of a vehicle. The camera is movable between (i) a deployed position, where the camera is at least partially exposed at the underside of the vehicle and views a region between the ground under the vehicle and at least a portion of the underside of the vehicle...