ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,878, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOTA INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing alarm according to behavior of driver in driving monitoring system" was invented by Sangtae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eunsik Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Wheemyung Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for providing an alarm based on a behavior of a driver in a driver monitoring system. The method includes receiving a first image corresponding to the driver within a vehicle, generating first model output information which indicates possibility that an anomaly which compromises safe...