US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 10 for "Method and monitoring device for determining an eye state of a person, and motor vehicle equipped therewith" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,352, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and monitoring device for determining an eye state of a person, and motor vehicle equipped therewith" was invented by Dorin Aiteanu (Berg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a monitoring device determine a binary eye state of a person. In the process, a monotonically decreasing slope with at least one specified minimum height is determined in a time curve of an eyelid gap which is determined in a camera-based manner. A current transition threshold for a change between an open and a closed eye is determined as a specified percentage ...