ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,211, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Attentiveness determination device, attentiveness determination system, attentiveness determination method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Daichi Tsunemichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attentiveness determination device includes an image processing unit, a pupil distance calculation unit, a heterophoria detection unit, and an attentiveness determination unit. The image processing unit outputs first reference coordinates, second reference coordinates, first pupil coordinates, and second pupil coordinates. The pupil distance ...