ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,806, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Determination system" was invented by Yuta Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Yosuke Matsushita (Osaka, Japan) and Keisuke Nagata (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination system includes a determiner that determines whether sleepiness of a driver who drives a mobile body is normal, based on sleepiness data regarding the sleepiness of the driver and reference data regarding sleepiness used as reference for determining whether the sleepiness of the driver is normal."
The patent was filed on Oct. 17, 2023, under Application No. 18...