ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,217, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular cabin monitoring system" was invented by Anuj S. Potnis (Hosbach, Germany), Krishna Koravadi (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and William J. Chundrlik Jr. (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular cabin monitoring system includes an interior-viewing camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing a driver sitting at a driver seat of the vehicle and viewing a passenger seat of the vehicle. The interior-viewing camera is operable to capture image data. The vehicular cabin monitoring system, at least in part via processing of image d...