US Patent Issued to Nauto on June 16 for "Devices and methods for detecting drowsiness of drivers of vehicles" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,936, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nauto Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for detecting drowsiness of drivers of vehicles" was invented by Benjamin Oren Alpert (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jacek Jakub Konieczny (Poznan, Poland), Shukui Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Tahmida Binte Mahmud (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a camera configured to view a driver of a vehicle; and a processing unit comprising a first model and a second model; wherein the first model is configured to process the images of the driver and to output feature information based on the images, and wherein the secon...