ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,259, issued on June 30, was assigned to Magna Mirrors of America Inc. (Holland, Mich.).
"Vehicular cabin monitoring system" was invented by Stephen J. Caron (Aurora, Canada) and Wassim Rafrafi (Newmarket, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular cabin monitoring system includes a radar assembly disposed in a cabin of a vehicle and operable to capture radar data. The radar assembly includes at least one radar transmit antenna that is operable to transmit radar waves and at least one radar receive antenna that is operable to receive radar waves. The transmitted radar waves are transmitted at least to a hotspot zone in the cabi...