ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,921, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular driver monitoring system" was invented by Jonathan D. Conger (Huntington Woods, Mich.) and Steven V. Byrne (Goodrich, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) with an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The camera is disposed at a mirror head of the interior rearview mirror assembly and moves in tandem with the mirror head when the mirror head is adjusted relative ...