ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,707, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).
"Driver attention system" was invented by Marcus Futterlieb (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Anilkumar Hariharakrishnan (Sauerlach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver attention system is configured to determine a drowsiness level of a driver of a vehicle by means of data provided by a monitoring unit configured to determine one or more driver parameters based on the current drowsiness level, determine a current driver focus level and an estimated time of remaining driver focus level, wherein the driver focus level is in...