ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,601, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Drowsy driving detection method and system thereof, and computer device" was invented by Ying Zhang (Guangdong, China), Tianlai Wu (Guangdong, China), Jichen Cai (Guangdong, China), Dongjian He (Guangdong, China), Jinzhou Sha (Guangdong, China) and Chao Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drowsy driving detection method comprises: acquiring a side face image of a currently seated driver collected by a camera module; performing face recognition on the side face image to obtain side face feature parameters, and determining...