ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,175, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Reveal Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detection of unsafe cabin conditions in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Rocky Chau-Hsiung Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Thomas Yamasaki (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) and Koichiro Kanda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and processes for the detection of unsafe cabin conditions that provides a safer passenger experience in autonomous vehicles are described. One example method for enhancing passenger safety includes capturing at least a set of images of one or more passengers in the vehicle, determining, based on the set of ...