ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,536, issued on May 27, was assigned to Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Systems and methods of ambient gas sensing in a vehicle" was invented by Salvatore Brauer (Bloomfield, Mich.), Leonard Cech (Brighton, Mich.) and Emil W. Ciurczak (Golden Bridges, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system connected to an occupant monitoring system includes communications with an apparatus for measuring gas or airborne compound concentrations in a vehicle cabin. The apparatus includes a housing configured as a flow tube in fluid communication with ambient air in the vehicle cabin. A spectrometer is mounted ...