US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on July 28 for "Vehicular driver monitoring system with driver interaction" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,894, issued on July 28, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular driver monitoring system with driver interaction" was invented by Jagadish Narayan Gowda (Bengaluru, India) and Pruthu Manderwad (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior-viewing camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing at least a head region of a driver of the vehicle. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes a data processor. Image data captured by the interior-viewing camera is transferred to the ECU and is processed at the ECU. Based at least in part on processing at th...