US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Driver awareness coverage using ocular data" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,088, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Driver awareness coverage using ocular data" was invented by Alexander Escatel (Clinton Township, Mich.), James Scott MacGuidwin (Northville, Mich.), Patrick Cooke (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Gyan Vardhan Singh (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver awareness coverage (DAC) system includes a vehicle having notification devices and sensors capturing optical information about a vehicle driver. A DAC application defines areas of interest (AoIs) surrounding the vehicle; processes the optical information; estimates a driver gaze direction, fi...