US Patent Issued to Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance on Feb. 24 for "Preventing cheating of in-vehicle breath alcohol analyzer system" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,990, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance (France).

"Preventing cheating of in-vehicle breath alcohol analyzer system" was invented by Jerome Mathieu (Troy, Mich.) and Andre Dos-Santos-De-Sa (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for inhibiting a driver from cheating a vehicle breath alcohol sensor. The breath alcohol sensor is mounted within a vehicle and determines an alcohol concentration of a breath of an occupant. An image sensor generates images of the occupant within the vehicle. A processor is configured to determine whether the occupant is attempting to cheat the...