ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,384, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Personalization system and method for a vehicle based on spatial locations of occupants' body portions" was invented by Blair Williams (Cupertino, Calif.) and Adnan Esmail (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalization system for a vehicle includes an image-capture device configured to capture a plurality of images of one or more occupants in the vehicle and control circuitry configured to estimate a plurality of Z-heights of a plurality of body portions of each of the one or more occupants from a reference position in the vehicle, based on the ...