Follow the cash-flow statement, but start with the bill of materials. On December 1, 2020, Magna Electronics was granted US10852418B2, "Vehicle sensor with integrated radar and image sensors." The CPC mix — G01S 13/867 (combined radar and image sensing), B60T 7/22 (automatic braking) and G01S 13/931 (automotive radar) — describes one module doing the work of two.Integration is a margin lever for a supplier. Two discrete sensors and the wiring between them is more bill-of-materials cost and less captured value than a single integrated unit a supplier owns the IP on. For Magna, the patent is a position in the fight over how much ADAS content per vehicle it can claim as the car parc electrifies and automates.Supplier cost is automaker cost in disguise, which is why the ledger reader cares. If Magna can deliver combined sensing at a lower module cost, that shows up downstream in the automaker's per-vehicle ADAS spend and, eventually, in gross margin on assisted-driving trims. The patent is the upstream artifact in that chain.The discipline is to keep this subordinate to the financials. A granted integration patent is a strategy tell, not a revenue line; the design wins and the content-per-vehicle dollars show up in segment disclosures over time. The primary source for any revenue claim is the company filing on sec.gov, surfaced via EdgarBeast.Read this as Magna staking out the integrated-sensing approach in 2020. Whether it converts into captured content per vehicle is a question the segment financials answer later, not one the grant settles.