ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,868, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Driver assistance method and driver assistance apparatus" was invented by Lei Gao (Beijing) and Sha Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance method and a driver assistance apparatus are provided, which may be applied to the field of autonomous driving or intelligent driving. The driver assistance method includes: determining that a driver is in an abnormal state; determining that a first operation performed by the driver on a first terminal is an abnormal operation; and performing first processing, where the fir...