ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,447, issued on July 15, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driving assistance system with adaptable/replaceable controller cards" was invented by Suresh Boddi (New Hudson, Mich.), Alan M. Cordeiro (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Sujith Gurram (Orion Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular sensing system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle equipped with the vehicular sensing system and a plurality of zonal aggregators each receiving respective sensor data captured by at least two respective sensors of the plurality of sensors and each aggregating its received sen...