US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Driver monitoring systems and methods with coaxial camera and light source" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,210, issued on Oct. 14.

"Driver monitoring systems and methods with coaxial camera and light source" was invented by Bernard de Mersseman (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring system of a vehicle includes: an infrared (IR) camera configured to capture an image of a driver on a driver's seat within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; an IR light source that is disposed between the IR camera and the driver, that is optically coaxial with the IR camera, and that is configured to output IR light to the driver; a gaze module configured to determine a gaze of the driver based on the image from the IR camera; and ...