US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Method for monitoring a child present in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,487, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a child present in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle" was invented by Christophe Grisey (Colomiers, France) and Isabelle Bacaer (Cornebarrieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring a child (2B) implemented by a child monitoring system (50), comprising an electronic control unit (510) and a motion detection module (520), comprising the following steps of: activating a motion detection module (520) and a first timer expiring at the end of a first predete...