ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,931, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Abnormality detection device" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormality detection device includes a control unit configured to detect, based on information regarding a driver of a vehicle that has been acquired by an input unit, a warning state indicating a warning that the driver is to become undrivable, and an abnormal state indicating that the driver is undrivable. The input unit includes a camera configured to generate image data, and the information is the image data obtained by capturing an image of the driver by t...