US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Systems and methods for rear passenger attention attraction" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,841, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for rear passenger attention attraction" was invented by Gonzalo Gabino Garcia Rodriguez (Tlalpan, Mexico), Jose Martin Mandujano Salgado (Cocoyoc, Mexico), Ibaruch Diego Barcenas Jimenez (Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico) and Jose Martin Gonzalez Pino (Nicolas Romero, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing rear passenger attention. A driver of a vehicle may be presented with a graphical interface for controlling a telltale embedded in a rear region of the vehicle that is visible to other occupants...