ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,431, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle component identification system" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Benjamin Solomon Richer (Arlington, Va.), Adam Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Peter Phung (Windsor, Canada) and Hussein H. Berry (Dearborn, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle component is identified based on a gaze direction of an occupant in a vehicle seat. A first direction of the vehicle seat is determined relative to a forward-facing direction of a vehicle. A second direction is determined from the vehicle seat to the vehicle component. The...