US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Drowsiness determination system and drowsiness determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,820, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Drowsiness determination system and drowsiness determination method" was invented by Motoyuki Okayama (Osaka, Japan) and Yu Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drowsiness determination system includes a first acquirer, a second acquirer, a third acquirer, and a determiner. The first acquirer acquires vibration information indicating the vibration of a vehicle. The second acquirer acquires head information indicating a variation in the movement of the head of an occupant. The third acquirer acquires sitting height ...