ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,295, issued on June 3, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for determining a cognitive state of a user of a vehicle" was invented by Philip Thomas (Coventry, Great Britain), David Rumbold (Coventry, Great Britain), Ersin Kurnaz (Coventry, Great Britain) and Fahad Qasim (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises input means for receiving user data from associated user monitoring means that each monitor at least one respective attribute of the user of the vehicle. The user data is indicative of the plurality of respective attributes. A plurality of inf...