ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,821, issued on April 14, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Helmet detection of a motorcycle driver" was invented by Vinaykumar Shileen (Bangalore, India), Sudeep Kumar Gaurkar (Bangalore, India), Praveen Srinivasa (Karnataka, India), Kishan Vinjamuri (Pithapuram, India) and Nithin Y P (Mysore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system for a single-track vehicle, including at least one sensor element positioned for detecting the surface of a driver's head and/or face of that vehicle, an electronic control unit to process the data of the sensor element and to calculate and/or dec...