ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,077, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Driving environment monitoring system and driving environment monitoring method thereof" was invented by Chih-Yuan Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hao-Min Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Jiun-Shiung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Kun-Hung Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving environment monitoring system includes a line-of-sight analysis module, an environment analysis module and a processor. The line-of-sight analysis module captures an eye image of a driver; and analyzes the eye image to obtain a plurality of line-of-sight probabilities that a l...