US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on Oct. 28 for "Dynamic airbag deployment system using camera thermal management" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,428, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS LLC (Southfield, Mich.).

"Dynamic airbag deployment system using camera thermal management" was invented by Erick Lavoie (Van Buren Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera control system of a vehicle includes: a camera within a passenger cabin of the vehicle and configured to capture images including an occupant of a seat within the passenger cabin; an overheat module configured to, using a thermal model of the camera, determine a period from a present time when a temperature of the camera is expected to become greater than a predetermined temperature and shut ...