ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,151, issued on June 23, was assigned to THE THIRD RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY (Shanghai).

"Driver fatigue state monitoring system based on seat pressure-bearing analysis" was invented by Caixia Liu (Shanghai) and Xiang Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a driver fatigue state monitoring system based on seat pressure analysis. The system collects driver seat pressure sensor monitoring data in real time and performs intelligent analysis, and controls a vehicle running state and sends an alarm prompt based on an analysis determination result. The driver fatigue state monit...