ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,172, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Method and system for seat belt status detection" was invented by Amil George (Wuppertal, Germany), Timo Rehfeld (Cologne, Germany) and Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for seat belt status detection in a vehicle are provided and include: obtaining first infrared images and second visible light spectrum images of a seat belt region where a seat belt is expected to be visible when it is worn by a person in a vehicle; performing image analysis to extract information from the images attri...