US Patent Issued to AMPERE on July 21 for "Method for determining a distraction level of a vehicle driver" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,713, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Method for determining a distraction level of a vehicle driver" was invented by Jean-Francois Forzy (St Remy les Chevreuse, France), Sabine Langlois (Paris) and Michel Leherichon (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a distraction level of a driver of a vehicle includes acquiring the direction of the gaze of the driver and maintaining or incrementing or decrementing a counter assessing the distraction level as a function of the acquired direction. The method also includes acquiring an offset level of an item of equipment of...