ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,473, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle cabin monitoring system" was invented by Sylvie Wacquant (Mainhausen, Germany).

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