ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,715, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stoneridge Electronics AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Camera monitoring system including image based impaired driving analytics" was invented by Banuprakash Murthy (Novi, Mich.) and Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting inattentive vehicle operation includes using a camera monitor system (CMS) controller to identify how centered a vehicle containing the CMS controller is within a first lane line and a second lane line. The determination is done by analyzing at least one image generated by the CMS, and identifying an inattentive driving event has occurr...