ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,611, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular vision system" was invented by Achim Gieseke (Gross-Umstadt, Germany) and Michael Biemer (Aschaffenburg-Obernau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes an interior-viewing camera disposed in a vehicle and viewing a driver of the vehicle, and a forward-viewing camera disposed at a windshield of the vehicle and viewing at least forward of the vehicle. Image data captured by the interior-viewing camera is transferred from the interior-viewing camera to and is processed at an electronic control unit (ECU). Ima...