US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Systems and methods for managing driver glance behavior" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,270, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Japan).

"Systems and methods for managing driver glance behavior" was invented by Joshua E. Domeyer (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Jason J. Hallman (Saline, Mich.) and Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for a driver monitoring system. The driver monitoring system includes an internal vehicle camera, an internal vehicle display, and an electronic control unit (ECU). When a driver enters the vehicle, a request ...