US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on March 4 for "Vehicle sensing system with enhanced obstacle detection forward and sideward of the vehicle" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,386, issued on March 4, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle sensing system with enhanced obstacle detection forward and sideward of the vehicle" was invented by Akshay Varekar (Pune, India) and Kushal Sachdev (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system, responsive to detecting an object present exterior of the vehicle via processing of image data captured by the camera, determines location of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The vehicular vision system displa...