US Patent Issued to Samsara on June 10 for "Drowsy driving detection" (California, Virginia, Missouri, New York, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,417, issued on June 10, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Drowsy driving detection" was invented by Sung Chun Lee (Fairfax, Va.), Nathan Hurst (Seattle), Yan Wang (Mercer Island, Wash.), Olamide Akintewe (Potterville, Minn.), Justin Levine (Erie, Colo.), Kenshiro Nakagawa (San Francisco), Cole Jurden (Kansas City, Mo.), Rachel Demerly (New York), Aravindh Ramesh (San Francisco), Kevin Lai (Redmond, Wash.), Jovanna Bubar (Los Angeles), Shirish Nair (Shoreline, Wash.) and Maisie Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for detecting when drivers drive while drowsy. In some implementations, a dr...