ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,787, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Child assistance for drivers" was invented by Adriana Ayala De Llano (Mexico City), Miguel Alfonso Aguilera (Naucalpan, Mexico), Eduardo Canamar Velarde (Naucalpan, Mexico) and Gerardo Moya (Mexico City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle receives a user-input correlation between a plurality of predefined messages and a plurality of predefined behavioral situations defining child behavior. The vehicle determines the presence of at least one child within the vehicle based on vehicle sensor data. Also, the vehicle determines, based on vehicle s...