ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,021, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).
"Vehicular driver monitoring system with eye tracking" was invented by Justin E. Sobecki (Rockford, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly having a mirror head that accommodates a variable reflectance mirror reflective element, a driver monitoring camera and a near infrared light emitter. When the near infrared light emitter is electrically operated to emit near infrared, the near infrared light emitter emits near infrared light that illuminates at least a dr...