US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on June 3 for "Vehicular control system with handover procedure for driver of controlled vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,173, issued on June 3, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with handover procedure for driver of controlled vehicle" was invented by Ralph Latotzki (Hamburg, Germany) and Frank Goseberg (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular control system includes a forward-viewing camera, a forward-sensing sensor and a cabin-sensing imaging sensor. With the system controlling driving of the vehicle, the system determines a triggering event that triggers handing over driving of the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle before the vehicle encounters an event point associated ...