ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,872, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Vehicle control usage monitoring" was invented by Greg Moran (Mukilteo, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring controls of a vehicle includes receiving, at a computing device, sensor data from a ranging system. The ranging system monitors a space associated with one or more vehicle controls. The method also includes, in response to a determination by the computing device that one or more objects are introduced into the space based on analysis of the sensor data, causing the computing device to save state data to a first memory onboard t...