ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,560, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circadian rhythm-based training data correction for drowsiness detection systems and applications" was invented by Yuzhuo Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.), Varsha Hedau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhengmin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shelly Goel (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, circadian rhythm-based data augmentation for drowsiness detection systems and applications are provided. Embodiments described herein may produce an estimated circadian rhythm for a test subject and/or vehicle driver or othe...