ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,211, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Seatbelt verification" was invented by David Schiebener (Mettmann, Germany) and Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a computerized method of seatbelt verification in a vehicle is presented. The method comprises generating, based on an image showing a seat of the vehicle, at least one heatmap representing probabilities of a seatbelt being present in regions of the image, determining a routing of the seatbelt in the image based on the values of the heatmap, and determining whe...