ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,594, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Vehicle operator monitoring method and system" was invented by Arnd Schirrmann (Taufkirchen, Germany), Oliver Klaproth (Taufkirchen, Germany), Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Catalina Obando (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for monitoring an operator state of an operator of an aircraft. The operator performs an input operation on an input device that displays an interactive item, such as a button. Physical properties, such as location, start, ending, duration, force, pressure, etc., of the input operati...