ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,681, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad, Germany).
"Driver assistance system" was invented by Jens Scholz (Ehingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance system comprising a plurality of monitoring units, each of the plurality of monitoring units mounted to a different one of a plurality of vehicles, and a central server. Each of the plurality of monitoring units is configured to determine a distraction level of a driver of the respective vehicle, and, if it is determined that the driver distraction level exceeds a predetermined threshold, transmit a distraction infor...