US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 26 for "Biometric identification in a vehicle environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,979, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Biometric identification in a vehicle environment" was invented by Jake Schwartz (Dearborn, Mich.), Ryan Edwin Hanson (Livonia, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a vehicle environment includes a biometric sensor that captures biometric information of a participant, a database that stores biometric data of a security event cohort, and control circuitry in communication with the biometric sensor. The control circuitry is configured to compare the biometric information to the biom...