MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311086057 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, Germany, on Dec. 16, 2023, for 'system and method for sensing vitals of occupants in a vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Prateek Singh; Namitha Bhat Kundapura; and Madhukesh Manevarthe.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for sensing vitals of occupants in a vehicle. It involves an image acquisition unit and a controller. The image acquisition unit captures infrared (IR) multimedia frames (202) comprising at least one of the occu...