US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 23 for "Driver monitoring system for a vehicle and method for driver monitoring" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,153, issued on June 23, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Driver monitoring system for a vehicle and method for driver monitoring" was invented by Yannick Forster (Munich) and Frederik Naujoks (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring system for a vehicle has at least one output device, a monitoring module, and a control module. The output device is configured to output at least one attentiveness warning. The monitoring module is configured to monitor a driver of the vehicle and to recognize inattentiveness states of the driver. The control module is configured to accumulate a duration of the rec...