ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,957, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Interior monitoring system and method for operating same, and vehicle comprising such an interior monitoring system" was invented by Emin Tarayan (Sindelfingen, Germany), Sebastian Sager (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Stefan Kalchmair (Aidlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a camera-based interior monitoring system involves configuring, depending on the evaluated sensor signals, parameters for setting the interior monitoring system. A computing unit executes at least two applications, each requiring a different configuration value ...