ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,857, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular occupant health monitoring system" was invented by Prathyush Kumar Keshipeddy (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular occupant health monitoring system includes a heartbeat sensor disposed at a vehicle and operable to capture sensor data measuring an aspect associated with the heart of an occupant of the vehicle. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes a processor operable to process sensor data captured by the heartbeat sensor and provided to the ECU. The ECU retrieves a profile associated with an occupant from a pluralit...