US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 28 for "Vehicle device and vehicle estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,903, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle device and vehicle estimation method" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle device or a vehicle estimation method estimates whether the driver is in an abnormal state different from a sleeping state by using a plurality of types of sensors, determines whether the vehicle is in a sleep-permitted automated driving or a sleep-unpermitted driving. When determining that the vehicle is in the sleep-unpermitted driving, the device or the method estimates whether the driver is ...