MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311082456 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, Germany, on Dec. 4, 2023, for 'system and method for detecting intoxicated drivers.'

Inventor(s) include Anamika Jha; Vasudev Singh; and Shuaib Ahmed.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a system (110) and method (400) for detecting intoxicated drivers. The system (110) receives one or more Near-Infrared (NIR) images (301) of a driver (104) from an image capturing unit (106), and determine a first value, a second value, and a third value using a...