US Patent Issued to MAGNA ELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Vehicle driving assist system with driver attentiveness assessment" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,386, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle driving assist system with driver attentiveness assessment" was invented by Harjeet Singh (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driving assist system includes a camera disposed in a vehicle and at least viewing driver hand positions of hands of a driver present in the vehicle. The vehicular driving assist system determines driver hand positions via processing of image data captured by the camera. The vehicular driving assist system compares determined driver hand positions to a plurality of discrete driver han...