ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,164, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Method and system for monitoring driver attention" was invented by Yannick Forster (Munich) and Frederik Naujoks (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and automotive control unit is configured to monitor an attention of a driver of a vehicle. To this end, a gaze location of a driver of the vehicle is determined. If the gaze location corresponds to a rear-facing mirror, a field of view of the rear-facing mirror is determined. If the field of view corresponds to a view of a driving environment of the vehicle, the driver is classified as performing ...