ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,365, issued on June 2.

"Black box operations controlled by driver mental state evaluation" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments are directed to adjusting the operational characteristics of a black box installed in a vehicle. In one embodiment a method is disclosed comprising classifying a mental state of a driver of an automobile, loading at least one setting based on the mental state, the setting defining an operational characteristic of a black box installed in the automobile, configuring the black box using the at least one setting, and recording one or more events by...