US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for in-cabin monitoring with liveliness detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,318, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for in-cabin monitoring with liveliness detection" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Heba Abdallah (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Ryan Joseph Gorski (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an object in a compartment of a vehicle. The method includes generating, via a time-of-flight sensor, a point cloud representing the compartment of the vehicle. The point cloud includes three-dimensional positional information of the compartment. The method further includes determ...