ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,163, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & Co. KG BAMBERG (Bamberg, Germany).

"Method for function control on a vehicle under consideration of a detected level of attention of a person in an interior of the vehicle" was invented by Markus Rosenthal (Bamberg, Germany) and Matthias Gempel (Bamberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for function control on a vehicle, the method having at least the following steps: detecting a useful item in the surroundings of the vehicle or in an interior of the vehicle by at least one sensor device of the vehicle, and triggering at least one function ...