ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,954, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Germany).

"Method and system for robust identification of a vehicle occupant" was invented by Mohamed Kari (Essen, Germany), David Bethge (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany) and Satiyabooshan Murugaboopathy (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for robust identification of a vehicle occupant. Simultaneously acquired data pairs from interior sensors and sensing elements are used as a training data set for global learning of a Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis architecture with two neural networks, wherein an authentication of the respective vehicle oc...