ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,707, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular control system with cross traffic alert and collision avoidance" was invented by Naresh Ravuri (Novi, Mich.), Jeremy J. Baca (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Suresh Boddi (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driving assist system includes a plurality of cameras and a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle. The plurality of sensors includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a plurality of radar sensors and a plurality of lidar sensors. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes an imag...