US Patent Issued to Nauto on June 24 for "Devices and methods for monitoring drivers of vehicles" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,600, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nauto Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for monitoring drivers of vehicles" was invented by Benjamin Oren Alpert (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jacek Jakub Konieczny (Poznan, Poland) and Shukui Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a camera configured to view a driver of a vehicle; and a processing unit configured to receive an image of the driver from the camera; wherein the processing unit is configured to process the image of the driver to determine whether the driver is engaged with a driving task or not; and wherein the processing unit is conf...