ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,232, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle warning apparatus" was invented by Tetsuya Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle warning apparatus includes a line-of-sight information acquisition unit, a movement information acquisition unit, a screen information acquisition unit, a warning level determination unit, and a warning unit. The warning level determination unit determines a state of the driver and a state of use of the mobile device by the driver based on line-of-sight information including a direction of a line of sight of a driver, movement information indicating a movement of a p...