US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on April 21 for "Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,177, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenta Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Udara Eshan Manawadu (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring device has vehicle control part performing autonomous driving control of a vehicle, first determination part performing first determination of whether there is a possibility of a driver of the vehicle being in a sleeping state or strong...