US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on July 28 for "Methods and systems for determining a state indicating whether a seat belt of a vehicle is used" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,692, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for determining a state indicating whether a seat belt of a vehicle is used" was invented by Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany) and David Schiebener (Mettmann, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining a state indicating whether a seat belt of a vehicle is used. A computer implemented method for determining a state indicating whether a seat belt of a vehicle is used comprises: acquiring at least one image of a portion of an interior of the vehicle; de...