US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on April 14 for "Driving ability determining system and driving ability determining method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,369, issued on April 14, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Driving ability determining system and driving ability determining method" was invented by Chao-An Chen (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Yu-Han Chen (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Chin-Hua Hu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving ability determining system, provided in a vehicle and for determining a driving ability of a driver of the vehicle, comprising: a HOD (Hand Off Detection) device embedded on a steering wheel, configured to receive at least one user input, wherein the user input is generated by the driver responding to a tes...