US Patent Issued to FCA US on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle driver or occupant health and alertness monitoring and assistance system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,731, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle driver or occupant health and alertness monitoring and assistance system" was invented by Sathya D Kondasani (Northville, Mich.), Nicholas Periat (Oxford, Mich.), Akarsh Rayishankar (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Trpko S Blazevski (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver or occupant health and alert monitoring and assistance system and associated techniques or methods include, among other features, monitoring vital signs of the driver and when these vital signs are determined to be outside of a predetermined range or pattern, alerting t...