ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,820, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Magna Mirrors Holding GmbH (Sailauf, Germany).
"Vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly with driver monitoring camera and driver breath analyzer" was invented by Sethuraman Ravichandran (Aschaffenburg, Germany) and Peter Krebs (Moembris, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular alcohol sensing system includes an air sensing device disposed at a vehicular component disposed at an interior portion of a vehicle. The air sensing device captures sensor data representative of a sample of air at the vehicular component. A driver monitoring camera is disposed in the vehicle and captures i...