US Patent Issued to FERRARI on June 23 for "Method for determining the drowsiness or attention level of the driver of a road vehicle, and road vehicle thereof" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,133, issued on June 23, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Method for determining the drowsiness or attention level of the driver of a road vehicle, and road vehicle thereof" was invented by Andrea Secondi (Modena, Italy) and Gianmarco Limonta (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining the drowsiness/attention level of the driver of a road vehicle; the method comprises the steps of: detecting at least one steering parameter related to the kinematics of a driver-operated device for steering; where the steering parameter is related to the steering angle and/or the steering speed of the road vehic...