ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,391, issued on July 21, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Driver psychophysiological state detection" was invented by Anastasiya Vladimirovna Bakhchina (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Ivan Sergeevich Shishalov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Mariya Yurievna Nevaykina (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Anton Konstantinovich Yakimov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Anton Sergeevich Devyatkin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Mikhail Sergeevich Sotnikov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Andrey Viktorovich Filimonov (Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia) and Vladimir Vladimirovich Borzikov (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It...