US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on March 31 for "Systems and methods for enhancing operator vigilance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,765, issued on March 31, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for enhancing operator vigilance" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Gyanendra Sharma (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to enhancing operator vigilance without causing an adverse reaction. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a disengagement likelihood; selecting a stimulus pattern that if executed adjusts a vehicle function; and executing the stimulus pattern if the disengagement likelihood...