ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,576, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NETRADYNE INC. (San Diego).

"Driver behavior monitoring" was invented by David Jonathan Julian (San Diego) and Avneesh Agrawal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide, implement, and use using a computer-vision based methods of context-sensitive monitoring and characterization of driver behavior. Additional systems and methods are provided for unsupervised learning of action values, monitoring of a driver's environment, and transmitting visual information from a client to a server."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/659,547.

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