US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on May 12 for "Displaying in-vehicle messaging and activating vehicle functions based on driver gaze direction" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,547, issued on May 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Displaying in-vehicle messaging and activating vehicle functions based on driver gaze direction" was invented by John Nowinski (Toledo, Ohio), Troy A. McCormick (Milford, Mich.), Tyler Warga (Milford, Mich.), Suman Yelati (Plymouth, Mich.) and Dhanabal Arunachalam (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a vehicle operation based on a driver gaze direction includes a plurality of sensors and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a gaze direction of a driver using the plurality of sensor...