ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,693, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle interior camera systems" was invented by Siddhartha Gupta (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Sean Taylor Coughlin (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Maria Del Mar Davila (Clawson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example vehicle interior camera system includes memory configured to store at least one Gaussian process image segmentation model, a vehicle interior camera, and a vehicle control module configured to obtain an image of the interior of the vehicle, extract one or more image crops of a region surrounding a target object in the image, detec...