ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,750, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance device" was invented by Ryuta Tsuda (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance device includes an image analysis part that analyzes a captured image obtained by capturing a face of a driver of a vehicle, and an abnormality determination processing part that determines whether a state of the driver is in an abnormal state on the basis of an analysis result of the captured image, and performs an emergency driving stop process of causing the vehicle to perform automatic braking if the driver's state is determined to be in the...