ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,086, issued on April 21, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Driver monitoring system with lane detection" was invented by Joshua D. Lintz (Allendale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring system for a vehicle includes a communication module, and at least one imager module in operable communication with to the communication module that is configured to capture a lane position of the associated vehicle and a driver's behavior. A processor receives the captured lane position and the captured driver's location from the at least one imager module. A memory includes instructions that, when executed by the p...