ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,231, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Driver-specific safety systems for vehicles" was invented by Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany) and Lukas Hahn (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method of adapting operation of a vehicle includes receiving first sensor data indicating a current driving state of a driver of the vehicle. The computerized method includes determining a first deviation metric by comparing the first sensor data to a reference driving state. The computerized method also includes, in response to the first deviation metric exceeding...