US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on Jan. 28 for "Vehicular personalized adaptive cruise control system that controls a vehicle in accordance with parameters for an identified driver" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,789, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular personalized adaptive cruise control system that controls a vehicle in accordance with parameters for an identified driver" was invented by Honghao Tan (Northville, Mich.) and Brian J. Tedesco (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular personalized adaptive cruise control system includes a forward-viewing camera viewing forward through a windshield of a vehicle, and an electronic control unit disposed at the vehicle. When the vehicle is operating in an adaptive cruise control mode, the system controls driving of the vehicle. ...