US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Steering wheel with built-in snooze alert system" (Mississippi Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,087, issued on May 26.

"Steering wheel with built-in snooze alert system" was invented by Bobby Ray Colvin Sr. (Columbus, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described with a steering wheel featuring an integrated snooze alert unit and microcontroller. It monitors steering wheel pressure, compares it to baseline data, and detects changes to assess driver drowsiness or any abnormal driving behaviors. Using a trained model and expert modules, it diagnoses issues and determines probabilities of drowsiness. Restoration tasks, such as alerts, are executed based on these probabilities. Post-restoration, pressure data is monitor...