MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641110403 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on September 15, 2026, for System And Method For Real-Time Multi-Task Driver Monitoring With Personalized Safety Indexing And Privacy Preserving Edge Deployment.

Inventors include Konatham Sumalatha; and Akkiraju Pruthvi.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT The present invention provides an integrated Driver Monitoring System (DMS) apparatus and method for real-time detection and personalized assessment of driver impairment. An Acquisition Layer (101) captures RGB camera frames and generates a normalized facial repres...