US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on June 24 for "Vehicular control system with traffic jam assist" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,894, issued on June 24, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with traffic jam assist" was invented by Venkata Satya Siva Prasad Challa (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a camera and an electronic control unit (ECU) that processes image data captured by the camera. The ECU, via processing of the image data, determines lane information of a traffic lane. The lane information includes lane boundaries. The ECU also determines presence of other vehicles on the road ahead of the equipped vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining presence of a...