US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 30 for "Determining the drowsiness of a person on the basis of a blinking analysis" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,985, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Determining the drowsiness of a person on the basis of a blinking analysis" was invented by Dorin Aiteanu (Berg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining the drowsiness of a driver of a motor vehicle. An average eye-opening measure of an open eye of the driver is determined. The eye-opening measure corresponds to a distance between an upper and a lower eyelid of the eye. A lower limit value and an upper limit value are also determined. The lower and upper limit values each correspond to an eye-opening measure...