ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,877, issued on July 7, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Device for analysing a passenger compartment of a vehicle" was invented by Onur Oguz (Creteil, France), Pierre Avital (Creteil, France) and Georges Djokic (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis device for analyzing a passenger compartment of a vehicle to detect persons is disclosed. The device has at least one ultra-wideband transceiver configured to transmit a signal (S1) on a wireless communication channel, at least one ultra-wideband transceiver configured to receive a signal (S2) corresponding to the transmitted sig...