ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,711, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"System and method for preventing drunk driving" was invented by Joseph Ramzi Dadoush (Macomb, Mich.) and Salam Said Neshewait (Westland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drunk driving prevention system includes a biometric authentication device that performs biometric authentication on a driver step-by-step at a request of startup of a vehicle, a drinking measurement device that measures a drunken state of the driver who completes the biometric authentication, a driver monitoring device that monitors a state of the driver in the vehicle while ...