US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 8 for "Driving analysis device and driving analysis method for analyzing driver tendency" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,159, issued on April 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driving analysis device and driving analysis method for analyzing driver tendency" was invented by Keisuke Kurokawa (Kariya, Japan) and Kaname Ogawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a driving analysis device, an information generation unit generates a time series of detection elements including a line-of-sight direction indicating to which of a plurality of preset viewable areas a line of sight of a driver driving a vehicle is oriented and an open/closed state of driver's eyes. An acquisition unit acquires evaluation data from the time series of the...