ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,354, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Driver attention detection" was invented by Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Vikramaditya Nimmagadda (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Aravind Gangumalla (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a driver in a vehicle includes a driver monitoring system adapted to monitor the driver of the vehicle, a system controller in communication with the driver monitoring system and adapted to collect data from the driver monitoring system related to gaze behavior of the driver, classify the driver as one of a plurality of driv...