US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for wiper control based on driver gaze detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,613, issued on Sept. 22.

"Systems and methods for wiper control based on driver gaze detection" was invented by Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Aaron L. Mills (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a glazing, a wiper, a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to capture images of a vehicle interior portion and a vehicle surrounding. The processor may be configured to determine a precipitation intensity and that the vehicle may be in a stationary state. The processor may furth...