ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,698, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Smart Eye AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Anti-spoofing system" was invented by Simon Liljestrand (Gothenburg, Sweden), Kenneth Jonsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), John Finer (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Stefan Klintberg (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Driver Monitoring System, DMS, configured to detect spoofing attempts, the system comprising: an NIR image sensor module; a light source; a controller configured to control the light source and the image sensor module, so to capture each consecutive image of the sequence in a different lighting condition; a processor having processor operabl...