ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,619, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Driver attention monitoring" was invented by Zhe Yan (Beijing), Li Li Guan (Beijing), Rong Zhao (Beijing), Li Bo Zhang (Beijing) and Hao Xiang Wu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for monitoring driver attention. A traffic event occurring during a driving task of a driver on a road can be monitored. A behavior of the driver in response to the traffic event can be detected. An attention level of the driver can be determined at least based on a match of t...