ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,028, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for monitoring a passenger in a vehicle" was invented by Benno Roesener (Stuttgart, Germany) and Klaus Hammer (Kilstett, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a passenger in a vehicle. The method includes: receiving data from an observation device and/or data from a login of the passenger to a local network of the vehicle; identifying the passenger in the vehicle using the received data; assigning the passenger to a seat in the vehicle; tracking the passenger in the event of a possible change of seat to a new s...