ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,667, issued on May 6, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Facial recognition technology for improving driver safety" was invented by Evaline Shin-Tin Tsai (Cupertino, Calif.), Alan Guihong Liu (San Francisco), Ijeoma Emeagwali (San Francisco), Ishaan Kansal (San Francisco), Saleh ElHattab (San Francisco), Bodecker John DellaMaria (San Francisco), Eliott Ray Chapuis (San Francisco), Jason Noah Laska (San Francisco), Jennifer Kao (San Francisco), Sean Kyungmok Bae (San Francisco), Sylvie Lee (Pittsburgh) and Brian Tuan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for performing operations for improving driver sa...