ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,758, issued on May 27, was assigned to Invisible Holdings LLC (Sheridan, Wyo.).
"Impaired driver deterrent system" was invented by Andrew Lee Van Valer (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system preventing an impaired driver from starting a vehicle has a mobile application executing on a portable communication device having a display screen, user-operable input elements, a microphone audio input, a speaker and wireless communication circuitry, a hardware component integrated into wiring of the vehicle, the hardware component comprising a normally open switching element operable by wireless signal from the portable communicat...