ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,409, issued on May 5, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Drunk driving prevention system and method" 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 of a driver step by step when startup of the vehicle is requested, a breathalyzer that measures a drinking level of the driver whose biometric authentication has been completed, a driver monitoring device that monitors the driver's state in a vehicle while a drinking level...